From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read a reply from the terminal
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:00:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvejikw1w1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708032223.l73MNbXw020483@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Fri\, 03 Aug 2007 15\:23\:37 -0700")
>> > I have now tested the code using a timeout of 0.1 on xterm, rxvt,
>> > gnome-terminal, konsole, putty, and a very old xterm (from an old
>> > Solaris). It works fine for all of them. All these terminals support
>> > the "\e[>0c" query.
>> > I also tested it on a Linux console, that does not support the query.
>>
>> Sorry to bring this up so much later, but is a timeout of 0.1 always
>> appropriate? Is there ever a circumstance where a remote host would need
>> to provide the information, or is it always trapped by a local terminal
>> driver in such a case?
> The terminal emulator replies.
But if you're running Emacs remotely via an ssh shell, then there's
a network between Emacs and the terminal emulator. E.g. in the case of
PuTTY, or in my case (xterm -e ssh <host>).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-04 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-14 2:42 read a reply from the terminal Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-14 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-15 13:49 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-07-15 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-15 22:04 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-07-16 3:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-16 19:46 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-07-14 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-15 0:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-15 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-15 8:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-15 15:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-15 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-15 20:42 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-03 21:54 ` Davis Herring
2007-08-03 22:23 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-04 1:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-07-15 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-16 0:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-14 22:16 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-07-14 22:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-15 0:24 ` Johan Bockgård
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