mozilla/mentat

[cli] Make Mentat CLI play nicely in an Emacs inferior mode

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#672 opened on May 1, 2018

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Right now, whatever we're doing to handle multiline input and to produce colour output is not playing nicely with eshell. I'd prefer not to make a dedicated inferior mode just for Mentat, but perhaps it's necessary. In any case, this ticket tracks figuring out how to turn off the fancy features for a minimal "Mentat CLI in Emacs" use case.

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Research direction
Investigate the CLI code to identify where output formatting (colors, multiline) is handled. Provide an option (e.g., environment variable or flag) to disable these features for Emacs compatibility.
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rust
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clideveloper experience
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2
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1-3 hours
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Stale
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Clear
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GitRust
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70