Re: Sondage: how people manage /dev/ttyS* inside emacs

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

>    I'm planning to give up screen to handle my serial port but I'd
> like to find a solution using emacs.
>
> Can you explain me in what it consisted using screen ? I do not
> see what you mean and maybe it could be the solution to one of my
> problem.

Well, it was quiet simple.

Currently I'm using GNU Screen for several reasons:

  - its 'detach' feature;
  - it can handle all tty devices such as serial tty;
  - I can run emacs in one buffer and a shell in an other.

I was trying to get rid of GNU Screen in order to do all my tasks in
emacs, hence my question: try to open /dev/ttyS with emacs.

But I found emacs terminal emulation quiet bad, for example frequently
the '\n' character has no effect and all lines are echoed on the same
line. Also I loose some of bash key bindings.

Hope that answers to your question.

Francis