bug#6686: 24.0.50; [restore functionality] sql-mode

[Tim Cross]

 Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com> wrote ...
>----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Tim Cross <tcross@une.edu.au>
>> To: mmaug@yahoo.com
>> Cc: 6686@debbugs.gnu.org; cyd@stupidchicken.com
>> Sent: Wed, July 28, 2010 8:53:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: bug#6686: 24.0.50; [restore functionality] sql-mode
>> 
>> Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com> wrote  ...
>> >
>> >Here's another option: attached is the version of sql.el  found in Emacs 
>> >23.  
>
>> >Load 
>> >
>> >this rather than the E24  version and see if you see the same behavior.  If 
>>you 
>>
>> >do
>> >then this is an E24 bug, else I've got some debugging to  do...
>> >
>> 
>> Thanks Michael. I will try an do some testing early next  week and will let 
>you
>> know what I find. Actually, after your response, I was  going to do exactly
>> what you suggest. It is quite possible the behavior is  due to something else
>> that has changed in emacs 24, though nothing jumped out  at me from a quick
>> scan of the change logs.
>> 
>> tim
>>
>
>I think what's wrong is the setting:
>
> (setq comint-process-echoes t)
>
>in `sql-interactive-mode'; Just comment out that line.
>
>I'm not sure why I added that, I'll have to check my notes.  See if that helps.
>
Thanks Michael. Was about to try your suggestion, but figured I should do it
with the latest dev sources. However, there appears to be an issue in sysdep.c
in the current HEAD which causes emacs to bail with an error when doing the
build. Will wait until somebody fixes the problem so that I can build with
latest snapshot. 

Tim