[Haskell-cafe] Interaction in Haskell

[Glynn Clements]

Dinh Tien Tuan Anh wrote:

> > Yes, it is certainly not Hugs which prevents from realtime interaction but
> > it is the terminal you are using. If the terminal lets you delete the
> > characters on the current line it has to keep them until you complete it
> > with ENTER.  Piping from and to other programs or files may not have this
> > problem.
> 
> You're right, i've been using shell in Emacs to run Hugs, but when back to 
> normal terminal, it works.
> 
> Just for curiousity, why does it happen ?

Emacs' shell-mode doesn't send anything to the terminal driver until
you hit Return, at which point it sends the whole line.

Note that the terminal driver itself normally does line-buffering,
although this is disabled if you set the buffering for stdin to
NoBuffering.

You can't disable the line-buffering inherent in Emacs' shell-mode;
you would have to use terminal-emulator instead ("M-x term" instead of
"M-x shell").

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>