shx does not seem to work in ielm buffers

[jave]

I used m-x shx-global-mode, which interferes with m-x ielm.

ielm will behave very oddly, outputing streams of hex rather than doing anything useful.

Is there a way to inhibit shx-global-mode in ielm buffers?

[riscy]

Thanks, this is great to know. I've quickly tried shx with ielm and I see the problem happening. I'll add a change to at least inhibit shx-global-mode in ielm buffers this weekend -- it will amount to redefining shx--global-on as:

(defun shx--global-on ()
  "Call the function `shx-mode' if appropriate for the buffer."
  (when (and (derived-mode-p 'comint-mode)
             (not (eq major-mode 'inferior-emacs-lisp-mode)))
             (shx-mode +1)))

[BooAA]

Similar issue happened for sly, which was a fork of slime and use comint-mode to redesign their repl.

screenshot:

[riscy]

Thanks! There might be a way to get shx to cooperate with these modes, but for now I'll add sly to the exceptions too.

[BooAA]

for c20495c, I think it should be sly-mrepl-mode.

[riscy]

I wasn't able to locate the definition of sly-mrepl-mode to confirm, but I think the root cause was that shx shadows the RET binding which these modes (and probably others) require.

[BooAA]

You can find out definition of sly-mrepl-mode here, the keymap it uses is sly-mrepl-mode-map, which RET is bind to sly-mrepl-return

root cause was that shx shadows the RET binding which these modes (and probably others) require.

Sounds reasonable. Now shx works for sly now, thanks.