From: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suspending emacs on character terminals and "screen switching"
Date: 05 May 2007 20:03:31 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnf3ps95.uni.tyler.smith@blackbart.mynetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.313.1178390702.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 2007-05-04, Casper Gripenberg <casper.gripenberg@kotiportti.fi> wrote:
>
> The screen switching is really useful when having to
> suspend emacs and go back to the command line to see
> what your program output was, or part of a manpage or
> whatever.
>
You can read manpages from within Emacs using M-x man, or run a
separate shell in an Emacs buffer for testing programs with M-x
shell. I know that doesn't help solve your problem, but it could limit
how often you actually need to switch back to the command line.
Cheers,
Tyler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 20:03 UTC|newest]
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2007-05-05 19:06 ` Suspending emacs on character terminals and "screen switching" Romain Francoise
2007-05-05 20:03 ` Tyler Smith [this message]
2007-05-04 23:25 Casper Gripenberg
2007-05-06 6:19 ` Maciej Katafiasz
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