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Re: Discrepancy between Python and Guile wrt exiting the interpreter
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:51:03 -0700
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Eli> The context of these questions is the Emacs's front-end for GDB, which
> Eli> uses MI, and that adds even more complexities to this already quite
> Eli> complex situation, in particular because Emacs until now didn't know
> Eli> (nor care) whether the user invoked Python or Guile interpreter.
>
> I wonder if Emacs could use the "new-ui" command to create a separate MI
> channel just for its use.
It would only work on some platforms, but in any case I don't think I
understand how that would help with the issue of exiting the Python
interpreter. What did I miss?