Recent changes to feature-requests

#8 move VCS to git

Nils Carlson — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:49:06 -0000

I agree. This is on my to-do list, I'm afraid I've very much neglected expect since covid.

move VCS to git

Tomasz Kłoczko — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:26:56 -0000

It would be good to move VCS from cvs to git.
As long as sf.net VCS web interface sucks it would be good to move as well VCS from sf.net to github/gitlab.

Allow editing the current command

heinrichmartin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:37:20 -0000

expect1.1> puts oooooops^[[D
^-------- left key

+ i.e. add a cursor
+ allow insertion
+ allow deletion of other than the last character (BKSP & DEL)

Add command history to interactive Expect

heinrichmartin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:35:08 -0000

expect1.1> puts 42
bla
expect1.2> ^[[A
^-------- up key

+ a history per session is helpful already (eg for typos)
+ a persistent history is the next step

Thread-safe Expect

Robert Joy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:09:11 -0000

I would like to see changes made to Expectto make it thread safe. I have several iTcl applications where I want to add threading to allow concurrent interaction with many of our products. Unfortunately, I was unable to do this in a nice OO way due to the fact that Expect is currently thread unsafe, at least it is on Windows. I'm not sure of it's state on other OSs but all my apps are being used by folks that have Windows boxes so I would like this. At this point I am going to spawn several processes and use comm to "simulate" the desired behavior but this means the user will see a ton of new processes being spawned for a single applicaiton and this is not a very friendly approach. If you can make the needed changes it would be much appreciated! :) Thanks!

Merge expect 5.39.0 source into sf.net

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:54:54 -0000

It really is a shame that the sf.net cvs has to play
catchup.

But, since that's how things work, I would like to
request that
someone incorporate the changes from the July 31
release of expect into the sf.net cvs and then,
hopefully, 'release' the source so that the sf project
tracks the nist releases.

Add copies of the docs to sf.net doc manager

Larry W. Virden — Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:20:45 -0000

There doesn't appear to be any official online Expect
documentation, which seems a shame.

It would be useful to put the Expect docs up online
here on sf.net.

Integrate Don's 5.33 release

Larry W. Virden — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:18:15 -0000

I would like to request that the sf.net project
integrate Don Libes expect 5.33 release from
http://expect.nist.gov/ and then release the files
here so that others who come to this site actually
have files that can be downloaded.

RFE: make exit functionality similar2tcl

Hemang Lavana — Fri, 06 Jul 2001 13:08:42 -0000

Hello,

The expect interpreter calls Tcl_Exit function at the end to terminate a
script. Due to this, we cannot do additional cleanup (ie. collect
profiling data and save it in a file) on exit.

Would it be reasonable to ask that the exit functionality of expect be
changed to follow that of the tclsh interpreter?

Here's the relevant code from tclMain.c file that should replace the
Tcl_Exit function call in exp_main_exp.c file:

/* need to declare buffer[1000] variable */

/*
* Rather than calling exit, invoke the "exit" command so that
* users can replace "exit" with some other command to do additional
* cleanup on exit. The Tcl_Eval call should never return.
*/

sprintf(buffer, "exit %d", exitCode);
Tcl_Eval(interp, buffer);

The Tcl_Exit function is invoked in the following files.

godel> fgrep -l Tcl_Exit *.c
exp_command.c
exp_main_exp.c
exp_main_sub.c
exp_main_tk.c
exp_tty.c