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24.5; octave-inf mode does not need --no-line-editing

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 21162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 "John W. Eaton" <jwe <at> degreesofgray.org>, 21150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Kurt.Hornik <at> wu-wien.ac.at, Mike Miller <mtmiller <at> octave.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21150: 24.5; octave-inf mode does not need --no-line-editing
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 00:58:35 +0200

Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org> writes:

> -(defcustom inferior-octave-startup-args '("-i" "--no-line-editing")
> +(defcustom inferior-octave-startup-args '("-i")

[...]

Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org> writes:

> As a conclusion of my observations above:
>
> A. if --no-line-editing was introduce because of the Emacs inferior
>    Octave mode
>
> B. if it is reasonable to assume that --no-line-editing is not used by
>    any other application
>
> C. if there is a way to leave readline enabled, but disable tab expansion
>
> then one can change the --no-line-editing behaviour to just disable tab
> expansion.
>
> Or, if only C is certainly true, one can deprecate and undocument
> --no-line-editing and add a separate option --disable-tab-expansion for
> use in Emacs inferior Octave mode.

I'm going through old bug reports, and after skimming this one, I'm not
quite sure what the conclusions are.  Should the --no-line-editing value
be removed from the options?

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