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company matlab shell mode doom emacs

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
emacs, emacs-lisp
Domain
tooling

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Reproduce the completion and read-only errors in the MATLAB shell under Doom Emacs, then inspect matlab-shell-collect-command-output and the shell process filter. Done means completions appear in the company popup and subsequent commands no longer produce Text is read-only errors around the output.

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Description

Hi,
I am using the doom emacs version and last matlab mode under matlab 2022b.
I have the company matlab shell mode completion which does not work.
Instead of pop-up me the completion into the company pop up buffer, I was output me:

>> emacsdocomplete('EEG.(cond')

and when I hit RETURN I get (the appropriate):

emacs_completions_output =
 java.lang.String[]:
   'cond'
   'condeig'

I use this snippet of code in my config:

;; https://sourceforge.net/p/matlab-emacs/mailman/matlab-emacs-discuss/thread/[email protected]
(defadvice! inhibit-real-only-a (oldfun &rest r)
  "Temporary remove read-only lines in shell buffer"
  :around#'matlab-shell-collect-command-output
      (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (apply oldfun r)))

I works but another issue came up...

error in process filter: run-hooks: Text is read-only
error in process filter: Text is read-only

when I enter next matlab commands into into the matlab shell buffer.
I understood that it is the '>' of HTML tag error char which triggers the error :

aaa
<ERRORTXT>
Unrecognized function or variable 'aaa'.
</ERRORTXT> 
>>

Using this M-: command on the '>' :

(let ((inhibit-read-only t))
  (delete-char 1))

for deleting this char, remove error.
I don't know if there is a cleaner way to fix this general issue : but the char > is currently an issue for matlab-shell....

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