From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multi-tty breakage on MS-Windows Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:37:19 +0100 Message-ID: <46F64FEF.9030903@gnu.org> References: <200709081532.l88FWcUu014489@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <46F5862B.7070504@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190547480 22438 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2007 11:38:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 13:37:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZPmd-0008L7-I5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:37:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZPmb-0005Gx-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZPmX-0005G9-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZPmW-0005FV-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZPmV-0005FS-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZPmR-0003Bj-Sq; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8CB51DDA; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:37:43 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79565 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:16:27 +0100 >> From: Jason Rumney >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >>> After these problems are solved, I think we need to decide whether it >>> makes sense to use several tty's on Windows. >>> >> If that is even possible, I don't think it is. >> > > Well, we could allocate several consoles and switch between them, I > think. > I looked into this, and only one console can be opened at a time. We might be able to close and reopen consoles, which might be a good implementation of suspend/resume, but if the user can see both consoles, they might not expect that.