"Major mode for interactively evaluating Emacs Lisp expressions.
Uses the interface provided by `comint-mode' (which see).
-* \\<ielm-map>\\[ielm-send-input] evaluates the sexp following the prompt. There must be at most
- one top-level sexp per prompt.
+* \\<ielm-map>\\[ielm-send-input] evaluates the sexp following the prompt. There must be at most
+ one top level sexp per prompt.
* \\[ielm-return] inserts a newline and indents, or evaluates a
complete expression (but see variable `ielm-dynamic-return').
(unless (comint-check-proc (current-buffer))
;; Was cat, but on non-Unix platforms that might not exist, so
;; use hexl instead, which is part of the Emacs distribution.
- (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "hexl")
+ (condition-case nil
+ (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "hexl")
+ (file-error (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "cat")))
(process-kill-without-query (ielm-process))
(goto-char (point-max))
(ielm-set-pm (point-max))
(unless comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields
(add-text-properties
- 1 (point-max)
+ (point-min) (point-max)
'(rear-nonsticky t field output inhibit-line-move-field-capture t)))
(comint-output-filter (ielm-process) ielm-prompt)
(set-marker comint-last-input-start (ielm-pm))