Original bug ID: 1898
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed (set by @damiendoligez on 2012-01-27T12:49:40Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: Craig Samuel Falls
Version: 3.07+2
OS: Debian
Submission from: 152.23.182.246 (152.23.182.246)

Summary

Using the toplevel directly in a terminal is fine. However, it has bad behavior
when run as a sub-process within Emacs which makes errors unreadable. Fixing
this annoyance in the ocaml toplevel will improve interactive use with (X)Emacs
for many users.

To Reproduce

1. Run ocaml-mode or tuareg-mode.
2. Select a large region of ocaml code.
3. Send the code to the ocaml sub-process.

Symptoms

The result of a multi-line expression (such as a class) will be indented to the
right, often so far that the first line returned from the ocaml toplevel will
not be visible.

Fix

This is a hack, but demonstrates the problem more specifically:

while true do
let input = read_line () in
let line = Str.replace_first (Str.regexp "# *") "" input in
print_string (line ^ "\n")
done

Compile this to "fix". Then, create a shell script called ocaml-fix that
executes "ocaml | fix". Finally, send a large region to the ocaml sub-process
again, this time running ocaml-fix instead of ocaml.

Thank you very much,
Craig