unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
* TNT not working reliably in Emacs
@ 2005-12-30  0:07 Scott Evans
  2006-01-01  2:15 ` Richard M. Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Scott Evans @ 2005-12-30  0:07 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi all,

I'm one of the maintainers of TNT, an AOL Instant Messenger client that
runs in emacs.  (http://tnt.sourceforge.net -- right now only the CVS
version is usable.)  I've been an XEmacs user for a few years, and I'm in
the process of switching over to Emacs.

I -- and some other TNT users -- have noticed that TNT is not reliable in
Emacs.  For instance, logging in to AIM succeeds on, I'd say, 10-20% of my
attempts.  On XEmacs that number is closer to 100%.

I've spent some time trying to chase this down, and so far I can't find
anything to point at.  Both successful and unsuccessful Emacs logins are
sending the same login info (using process-send-string)... but sometimes
a login response comes back (via a process filter), and most times one
doesn't.  I've not yet tried a proxy to see if the server is responding
in the unsuccessful cases.

I *have* tried this using NTEmacs 21.3, NTEmacs 22.0.50.1, and 21.4.1 on
debian; all three behave similarly.

Are there any known, perhaps longstanding, quirks with process-send-string
or process filters?  Would anybody be interested in checking out the TNT
code to see if it does something that's just plain wrong?  I'd be happy to
point folks to the pieces of code in question.

Thanks-

gse


--
 scott evans :: www.antisleep.com

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* TNT not working reliably in Emacs
@ 2005-12-30  2:17 Scott Evans
       [not found] ` <87mzij1as0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Scott Evans @ 2005-12-30  2:17 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi all,

I'm one of the maintainers of TNT, an AOL Instant Messenger client that
runs in emacs.  (http://tnt.sourceforge.net -- right now only the CVS
version is usable.)  I've been an XEmacs user for a few years, and I'm in
the process of switching over to Emacs.

I -- and some other TNT users -- have noticed that TNT is not reliable in
Emacs.  For instance, logging in to AIM succeeds on, I'd say, 10-20% of my
attempts.  On XEmacs that number is closer to 100%.

I've spent some time trying to chase this down, and so far I can't find
anything to point at.  Both successful and unsuccessful Emacs logins are
sending the same login info (using process-send-string)... but sometimes
a login response comes back (via a process filter), and most times one
doesn't.  I've not yet tried a proxy to see if the server is responding
in the unsuccessful cases.

I *have* tried this using NTEmacs 21.3, NTEmacs 22.0.50.1, and 21.4.1 on
debian; all three behave similarly.

Are there any known, perhaps longstanding, quirks with process-send-string
or process filters?  Would anybody be interested in checking out the TNT
code to see if it does something that's just plain wrong?  I'd be happy to
point folks to the pieces of code in question.

Thanks-

gse


--
 scott evans :: www.antisleep.com

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2006-01-01 20:03 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2005-12-30  0:07 TNT not working reliably in Emacs Scott Evans
2006-01-01  2:15 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-01 20:03   ` Scott Evans
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-30  2:17 Scott Evans
     [not found] ` <87mzij1as0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2005-12-30  4:28   ` Scott Evans

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).