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riscy / shx-for-emacs

An Emacs shell-mode (and comint-mode) extension that enables displaying small plots and graphics and lets users write shell commands in Emacs Lisp.
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What's the difference between this package and comint-mime? #30

Open hongyi-zhao opened 2 years ago

hongyi-zhao commented 2 years ago

It seems that this package aims to achieve a similar purpose as what done in comint-mime. What's the difference between this package and comint-mime?

Regards, HZ

riscy commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the question. I started this package over ten years ago and it looks like comint-mine is oriented around python. If you don't mind me asking, why do you ask?

hongyi-zhao commented 2 years ago

If this package is more generic and robust than comint-mime to do things like the ones discussed here and here, then I might consider trying it out and switching eventually.

riscy commented 2 years ago

I see! It's possible, but on a (very brief) look at comint-mime's code, there's much more going on there to handle python REPLs than shx -- the latter is sort of designed around targeting the command line shell as opposed to python REPLs.

hongyi-zhao commented 2 years ago

If so, at least they can be used side-by-side to complement and make up for each other's shortcomings.