[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33295] Octave can not debug when read from pipe

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #33295 (project octave):

I'm sorry, I realise my previous response was again too terse.

The reason why it makes a difference is that debugging is inherently
interactive in a way that a script doesn't have to be. Pipes are not meant to
be used interactively, but they're fine if you need Octave to process a script
and dump output to some file or screen. When you use pipes for an interactive
process, however, you end up (1) reimplementing a lot of readline's interface,
(2) reimplementing Octave's parser. So because there's no need to do (1) and
(2), there is no need to attempt to make debugging work over pipes.

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