Unsung Python modules
Justin Sheehy
justin at iago.org
Sat Dec 15 14:56:10 EST 2001
Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:
>> One reason that a lot of people might not think of this is that it's
>> not needed if you're using Python's interactive mode in an emacs
>> inferior shell buffer alongside Python-mode.
>
> Can you get completion in python-mode? Or multi-line editing?
Not in the same way that you can from readline.
I get completion via emacs' dynamic abbrevs, which are wonderful but
complete mainly based on the contents of current buffers. For
completion of names in my own code or code that I have loaded into
another buffer somewhere, this works beautifully.
I haven't needed multi-line editing exactly, since I'm already inside
an editor. If I want to redo an earlier action slightly differently,
I just type or modify it in an editor buffer and have python-mode
evaluate that block.
I certainly wouldn't argue that readline is useless. However,
python-mode provides different yet strongly overlapping functionality
and thus a python-mode user is much less likely to feel the need for
readline behavior.
-Justin
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