alchemist-iex-run doesn't work with pry

[chowevtfy]

Easy enough to reproduce:

iex(1)> require IEx
require IEx
IEx
iex(2)> IEx.pry
IEx.pry

Cannot pry #PID<0.81.0> at iex:2. Is an IEx shell running?
{:error, :no_iex}

[Trevoke]

This problem occurs with shell and eshell. Both term and ansi-term handle IEx.pry correctly.

However, I'm not sure to which extent this is a problem with alchemist instead of a problem with Elixir.

[chowevtfy]

It works fine with alchemist.vim, so I suspect that it has to do with this plugin.

[Trevoke]

I assumed this had to do emacs, was I wrong?

Which shell does alchemist.vim go to?

[collegeimprovements]

Also we cannot run the method from normal terminal due to this. Whenever it hits IEx line it will just throw an error. However when we are not using emacs/spacemacs and then when we run iex -S mix from terminal, it works as expected.

[gil-air-may]

2 years later and I still have the same problem. Now that I have finally made the switch to spacemacs, I cannot debug my apps the way I used to.

[gil-air-may]

Although not an ideal solution, you can run iEX pry if you use the multi-term instead of eshell.