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bug#71050: Tramp's direct-async-process makes remote IRB be missing prom


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#71050: Tramp's direct-async-process makes remote IRB be missing prompt and duplicate input
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 03:46:30 +0300
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

It's not 100% clear to me that the bug is in Tramp and not IRB (run-python doesn't seem to exhibit the same problems), but it's easy enough to reproduce, so maybe the cause can be identified and fixed without too much trouble. It's probably something like the TERM variable or "is a tty" detection.

Steps:

1. Install inf-ruby from somewhere (e.g. NonGNU ELPA).
2. Connect to a server that has "direct-async-process" configured and which also has Ruby installed. fencepost has Ruby installed, FWIW.
3. Evaluate this: (run-ruby "irb").
4. The REPL buffer will be created called *ruby* where you can send input and receive output, but there is no prompt there, and whatever input you send is first duplicated in the output. Also, the buffer starts with "Switch to inspect mode", which seems to be related to the latter (input duplication) but not the former.

If the connection is not "direct-async-process", the REPL functions normally (prompt visible, no input duplication).

There is also an intermediate situation (with "direct-async-process" enabled) that happens if you simply run 'M-x inf-ruby' - that calls 'irb' with a certain set of arguments for maximum compatibility. The result is that the prompt *is* visible, but the input duplication still happens.

It would be great to fix the bare (run-ruby "irb"), though - because there are contexts where passing the aforementioned extra arguments is more difficult. But I'll take any improvements as a win.





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