[clisp-list] Re: CLisp prompts

[Michael G. <mgr...@ma...>]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:

> The reason for non-customizable PROMPT-STRING1 and PROMPT-STRING3 is
> probably to use different fonts for prompts and to help CLISP running
> under Emacs.

Interestingly enough, the fairly rigid format of the prompts inhibits
CLISP from running under TeXmacs (though this has been solved, as per
previous messages on this list).

> It might make sense to export functions PROMPT-START (instead of
> PROMPT-STRING1), PROMPT-BODY (instead of PROMPT-STRING2 and *PROMPT*)
> and PROMPT-FINISH (instead of PROMPT-STRING3), and default PROMPT-START
> and PROMPT-FINISH to return "".

Yes. Having a clean way to fully define the prompts would be useful in
communicating with external software.

Though, I think I'll have to mention all this on texmacs-dev because
it provides an argument for making TeXmacs more flexible in this regards,
as per Emacs.