CoCoA » CoCoA-5

Note that issue #433 dealt with the problem of sending long lines from a cocoa5-mode buffer to the interactive CoCoA session. This issue is very similar, but somehow different.

I was in an interactive cocoa5 session, and introduced a long line via copy-and-paste (output from another program).
The line was of the form L := [0, 0, 0, .... 0]; though not all the entries were zero. CoCoA-5 received just the first part of the list, and then issued a continuation prompt because it had not yet seen the end of the list.

The problem appears to be emacs specific: if I send the same input line to cocoa5 running in a terminal then it all works fine.

One easy way to avoid the problem is to paste the line into a buffer in cocoa5-mode (e.g. associated to a CoCoA-5 source file), and then send the line from the buffer. Issue #433 arranges for long lines to be sent by calling SourceRegion.

To reproduce the original problem print the output of [0 | i in 1..2000] to a file, then append a semicolon ; to the end. Now try copying-and-pasting that into as input to an interactive CoCoA-5 session inside emacs.

The following URL may help:

http://osdir.com/ml/emacs-bug-tracker-gnu/2016-08/msg00144.html