Subject: Re: clisp with comint

From: haible (Bruno Haible)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 15:22:22 +0100

Joerg Hoehle:
> When CLISP enters the read part of read-eval-print loop, CLISP empties
> the input queue to be sure not to get old input. This is why you can
> only input one lisp form.

Joachim Schrod:
> I had to change the process-connection-type to t (i.e., to
> use pipes instead of pttys). Then it worked.

This is because I wasn't able to implement CLEAR-INPUT for pipes.
For ptys, CLEAR-INPUT does its job.

Bruno Haible