On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:05:32AM +0000, Derek Peschel wrote:
As a first step toward my general goal of making a LISP interface that is designed for random-access displays rather than simulated Teletypes, I thought I would get the prompt out of REPL buffers and put the same information on their mode lines.
A one-line change to sline.el prevents printing the prompt string, [...]
The next problem is to put the information in the mode line or perhaps in the top pane that currently shows the port and process IDs. The standard prompt shows the current package. To the user, the prompt also means "evaluation of the last form (or initialiation) was aborted or is complete" as well as "the reader is expecting new input and is not in the middle of reading anything".
More importantly to me, the prompt tells me "this is what *PACKAGE* was when I ran this command n {minutes,hours,days} ago." I'd be very unhappy for that information to go away.
I guess I'm not sure what problem you're attempting to solve here...
-bcd