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28.0.50; python-shell-send functions show no output

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com, Mark.Barton <at> disney.com, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 49822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#49822: master e32c7d2: Change Python eval to send directly instead of using temporary files
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:02:39 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

Hi,

>> I'm sitting at machine A but my inferior process is running on
>> machine B and the machines talk via SSH.
>
> You mean, you run a remote subprocess via Tramp?
>
>> There are several steps in the communication here: Emacs -> SSH client
>> -> SSH server -> inferior process.  Each step has potential limitations.
>> If the SSH server talks to the inferior process via a PTY (I'm just
>> pondering, and I don't know if this is usual setup or not), then we
>> would have to take machine B's PTY restrictions into account, which
>> would defeat the purpose of knowing the exact characteristics of machine
>> A's PTYs.
>
> I don't see how B's PTY restrictions are relevant, but maybe Micheal
> will (assuming you are talking about remote subprocesses).

Tramp tries to handle such cases. But of course, a respective test
wouldn't hurt. It could be on the machine which has shown the
limitations, accessing it via "/ssh::".

Best regards, Michael.

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