Support M-r like shell mode

[monsanto]

shell-mode (actually comint) has a neat clone of bash's history search. nrepl.el should snap this up.

Unfortunately none of that code is reusable, so this will likely be a copy-paste affair.

[ska2342]

Can you quickly describe the differences between that history search and the one already available in nrepl.el?

Thanks,
Stefan

[monsanto]

If by the current search functionality you mean nrepl-previous-matching-input, the difference is that nrepl's search functionality is not incremental and shell-mode's is. It's the same difference between search-forward and isearch-forward

If you want to try it out, M-x shell, execute a few commands, and try M-r.

[ska2342]

Understood. nrepl.el mimics the search facility found in SLIME. I do remember having to get used to that compared to the incremental C-r in bash; today it's in my finger memory so I don't care anymore. I wouldn't object to the incremental approach, though.

[Josh-Tilles]

What do you think about going all the way and defining nrepl-mode to be derived from comint-mode?

[bbatsov]

@MerelyAPseudonym Yep, that would be ideal. Hopefully I'll do that at some point.

[bbatsov]

Closing this in favour of #709.

[vspinu]

I have started looking into moving cider repl on comint. Plan to get
something running by the end of the week.

On 12 August 2014 08:39, Bozhidar Batsov [email protected] wrote:

Closed #326 #326.

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