From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers] Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18330.29609.396872.678539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wspxqwjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20080127195538.GA5014@muc.de> <20080127215019.GC5014@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201485830 14844 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 02:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, miles@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 03:04:10 2008 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 1JJJLu-0000IR-7f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:04:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJJLT-0000Jn-Mq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJJLP-0000Ji-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJJLN-0000JW-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJJLM-0000JT-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:28 -0500 Original-Received: from 206-248-159-121.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.159.121] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJJLF-0006FW-DR; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2832EB40DF; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20080127215019.GC5014@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:50:19 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Greylist: delayed 18244 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:21 EST 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:87674 Archived-At: Hi Alan, > 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. Don't worry: the seriousness with which the multi-tty effort has been taken is proof that tty support is in no way "on the way out". Stefan