RE: Issue with action-key in comint mode

[Bill Benedetto]

Well, I lied a bit.

Extra text before the path causes a failure.
Extra text after the path does not seem to cause a failure.
(Either that or it's inconsistent.)

- Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Benedetto 
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2024 9:42 AM
To: hyperbole-users@gnu.org
Subject: Issue with action-key in comint mode

Good day!

I'm a long-time emacs user as well as a long-time hyperbole user.
(Both great products, BTW!)

I've run in to an odd problem, which I just figured out today changed sometime 
after hyperbole v8.0.0.

I'm a system admin and use comint to open shells in emacs. (I know.  I've been 
doing this for a long time.)

Regardless, in the past I've been able to action-key on any path in my shell 
window and hyperbole does the right thing.

Recently-ish I've noticed that the action-key quit working on paths in my shell 
windows.  So I just switched to ffap, which I'm not wild about since it's an 
interrupt to my thinking (I just want the action-key to do it's thing! :-D).

Today I was thinking that I remember that the action-key always used to do the 
right thing in shell windows.

So I started going back to earlier hyperbole versions.

I went from v9.0.1 back to v8.0.2pre (which I had laying around).
The problem still persisted.

Then I switched back to v8.0.0 (again, which I had laying around). And the 
action-key once again works in shell windows like I expect/hope it to work!

All of this is just to ask how do I go about debugging this?

When it fails in the newer versions, the error I get is:
  (Hyperbole Action Key): No action defined for this context; try another 
location

And in the *Messages* buffer I see:
  let: (Hyperbole Action Key): No action defined for this context; try another 
location

One thing that I discovered is that if the path is on a line by itself (no 
other text before or after it, that is), then the action-key will work.  But in 
my case I'm looking at all different sorts of output and the path is almost 
never on a line with no other text.

Can someone give me some ideas about where to look or how to start debugging?

Thanks!

- Bill
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