On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:21 PM, huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com> wrote:
Most shell programs (bash etc) use "inherit from parent" as default, why inferior use "redirect to /dev/null" as default?
That's a good question. Probably because I'm using inferior-shell at the SLIME REPL, and that the parent streams are then on their own inferior-lisp emacs buffer, at which point :interactive as the default is confusing. Also, there was a point at which :interactive did something magic with the input — which is only a bit less the case now, but still. Also, that's a bad default to have in a multithreaded setting. I suppose I could change function run-spec in run.lisp to have an explicit keyword argument (output :interactive) and pass it to run-program. Does anyone else care to comment? Is anyone else using inferior-shell, and would filled with either joy or sorrow at such a change? —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Panties: not best thing on earth, but next to it.