From: joakim@verona.se
To: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GNU Screen inside Emacs?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:14:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5mp9h62.fsf@verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339z5ay3g.fsf@verona.se> (joakim@verona.se's message of "Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:23:15 +0200")
joakim@verona.se writes:
> I would like to connect to long running remote ssh commands inside Emacs
> shells. Normaly one uses Gnu Screen for this, but Screen doesnt work
> inside an Emacs shell. I could use a Emacs terminal, but thats
> inconvenient.
>
> Currently I try using starting this command inside an emacs shell
> session:
>
> TERM=xterm screen
>
> I need to trick screen since it doesnt want to run in a "dumb" terminal
> since it needs terminal erase for standard operation. This trick works a
> little bit, but color escapes look weird, and so on, and its not the
> right solution.
>
> Ok, so something somewhere must change for this to work like I want, I'm
> not just sure where, which is why I ask here. What soultion would be
> most Emacsy?
>
> - patch Screen so it works sufficiently in dumb terminals?
> - patch the Emacs shell so its not "dumb" but maps some particular
> escapes to emacs commands?
> - something else altogether involving writing a much dumber screen
> replacement, perhaps involving nohup, or disown.
> - using emacs in demon mode and some kind of emacs buffer sync package
> between 2 instances. Overkill but interesting.
I got some advice that "dtach" might be suitable, so I'll look into
that.
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-09 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-09 7:23 GNU Screen inside Emacs? joakim
2010-04-09 7:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-09 8:14 ` joakim [this message]
2010-04-10 1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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