Re: Proposal: psql force prompting on notty

--- Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Michael Mauger writes:
>
> > I'm the maintainer of sql.el in GNU Emacs. On both the Mac OS X
> > and the Windows/Cygwin platform we've had reports that psql run
> > under Emacs does not issue a prompt for commands.
>
> Why can't you make the Emacs session behave like a terminal for psql?
>

Discussion on emacs-devel indicates that there are some known issues with
pty support on the Mac OS X port which are being addressed. The problem
however does still exist on the Windows platform.

Emacs is not a Cygwin (Un*x emulation on Windows) executable (like psql
is) so it is not setting the psql process up in a way that cygwin
recognizes as being a pty-like environment. Thus the isatty() on stdin
and stdout are returning false when run under Emacs.

My proposed patch is small and overrides psql's detection of it's
environment when the user knows better.

-- Michael

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