From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [multi-tty] Emacs port status Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 14:15:26 +0300 Message-ID: References: <464CC097.10700@gnu.org> <85abw3up91.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <464DF9D8.7080001@lorentey.hu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179573337 21683 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2007 11:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?S8Ohcm9seSBMxZFyZW50ZXk=?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 13:15:36 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 1HpMuM-0000KT-VD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:15:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMuM-0007GS-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMuJ-0007G6-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMuG-0007Fu-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:15:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMuG-0007Fr-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpMuF-0005Vj-5h; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:15:27 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-254-231.inter.net.il [84.229.254.231]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HWL03473 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 19 May 2007 14:15:25 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <464DF9D8.7080001@lorentey.hu> (message from =?UTF-8?B?S8Ohcm9seSBMxZFyZW50ZXk=?= on Fri, 18 May 2007 21:09:12 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:71384 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 21:09:12 +0200 > From: =?UTF-8?B?S8Ohcm9seSBMxZFyZW50ZXk=?= > CC: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > One reason why _I_ wasn't part of the discussion is that I couldn't > > find any place where the design principles of multi-tty are described > > in sufficient detail for me to make up my mind about it. Is there > > such a document out there? If not, could someone ``in the know'', > > preferably Karoly himself, please describe the feature and its main > > design principles? > > In terms of core Emacs features, the multi-tty branch adds the > capability to create frames on multiple tty devices at once (hence the > name). It also adds support to simultaneously have X and tty frames in > the same Emacs session. > [...] Thanks for the explanations. Now maybe a similarly concise description of the issues that were so extensively argued about would help more people to speak their minds. Judging by what you wrote, the issue doesn't sound like a very important one, but I'm sure that I'm missing something.