[Smith, Christopher - CTR] python.el

[Dave Love]

I'm forwarding this to the bug address.  It's best to send things
there initially.  I can't work on it anyway, sorry, but thanks for the
feedback.

If rlcompleter (?) isn't generally available, and that makes loading
emacs.py fall over, perhaps a Python hacker could make it degrade
gracefully.  In that case it should just not provide completion, I
suppose.

It perhaps also needs additional grace if the Python version isn't
high enough, but I don't know what is high enough.  Perhaps someone
can look at that too.

I don't use hs-minor-mode, but I'm sure it's fins to add.  There is
outline support, and I'd have guessed, without thinking about it much,
that hideshow should be able to use that in the absence of explicit
support.  I don't know what PyMacs is.

[Commiserations on the Lose2000, with which I can now sympathize.
Perhaps you could persuade it to avoid sending `HTML' multipart mail,
though.]

--- Begin Message --- Subject: python.el Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:49:46 -0400

Dave,

 I was trying out subject file under Lose2000 at work with CVS emacs and Python 2.3.3, and encountered the typical no-joy experience one has with ‘Doze.

 I moved the emacs.py file into /Lib in the python directory

 I acquired readline.py from

 http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/readline.html

 Unfortunately, it required MSVC6.0 to compile an extension,  so I was beat.

 There was an executable download, but it required admin privileges to install.  So I was beat.

 However, the older python-mode.el works OK, so I guess I'll use that.

 I’d prefer to stick with the emacs distribution stuff, but I’m not skilled enough yet to remove this readline.py dependency.

 Two other items of interest would be integrating hs-minor-mode, and PyMacs

 Thanks, though.

Best,

Chris Smith, FSF #2221

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