From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, miles@gnu.org,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers]
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:50:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080127215019.GC5014@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzlurug5r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
'Evening, Stefan!
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:13:29PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> and that is ok, people can continue not to use them. But getting rid
> >> of them would just mean trouble.
> > Too damn right it would! I'd start screaming!
> Hello? It's me!
> Do you really think I'd suggest to plainly throw away tty frames?
> Seriously?
No, of course not, not you! It was actually Richard who brought the
issue up, but he wouldn't get rid of them either.
People sometimes express the opinion that TTYs have been superseded by
GUIs, sometimes they express it forcefully, and sometimes offensively
(though this hasn't happened on this thread). It doesn't hurt,
sometimes, to remind people that this is not the case.
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremnberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-27 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 21:57 Tabbed buffers Nick Roberts
2008-01-25 22:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-25 23:41 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-26 0:07 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-26 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 5:03 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-26 7:24 ` Thomas Lord
2008-01-26 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 14:38 ` Chong Yidong
2008-01-27 0:44 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 1:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-27 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 1:50 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 1:58 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-27 2:10 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 0:45 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 16:13 ` T. V. Raman
2008-01-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 23:31 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-28 2:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 8:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 17:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 19:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 21:30 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 6:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-29 7:19 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 8:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 23:05 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-01-30 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-30 7:53 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-29 7:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-30 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-01 3:50 ` T. V. Raman
2008-02-01 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-03 2:06 ` T. V. Raman
2008-02-03 16:18 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 19:55 ` Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers] Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-27 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 21:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-28 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-01 3:32 ` T. V. Raman
2008-01-27 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 21:50 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2008-01-28 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 15:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-26 9:14 ` Tabbed buffers Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-26 11:36 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-26 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 0:12 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 4:48 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 8:05 ` Is there any document about Emacs implementation (C source code)? brianjiang
2008-01-27 9:40 ` dhruva
2008-01-27 20:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-27 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 17:18 ` Tabbed buffers Eli Zaretskii
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