From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Screen"-like functionality Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:49:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87mtpa4orl.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14414"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kArdAFTcfniJrWaf6eJoHFRot2s= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 21 20:49:55 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mHW43-0003WT-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:49:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43888 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHW41-0005wG-I4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHW3Q-0005w7-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39162) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHW3O-0007gJ-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mHW3L-0002e5-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:49:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132650 Archived-At: Julius Hamilton wrote: > There is a bash tool called screen which lets you switch > windows between different command line prompts. To be precise, screen (GNU screen) is rather a tool associated with the terminal emulator, it will work with other shells as well apart from, be it ksh or zsh or whatever. Tools such as screen are called terminal multiplexers, the other big one is tmux (out of BSD) which today is more common than screen, I think. > Is there any similar tool for Emacs, where you could run > some kind of process, for example the Emacs web browser There is eww (Emacs Web Wowser) which is built-in and the third-party Emacs-w3m (which uses the shell tool w3m), Emacs-w3m (out of Japan) has been around longer and should be very capable of at least static pages (it doesn't support JavaScript). Because "everyone" today assumes tons of different fonts/sizes, huge resolutions and mouse use, some pages appear overloaded in an Emacs buffer, but that's not Emacs-w3m's fault (and I guess not the webmaster's either, as their assumption may be correct for 99% of their users - it is just reality, I guess). > then switch to a different window or process within Emacs, > such as a text file being edited? M-x shell RET ? It should be enough for most purposes and you switch between buffers like any other Emacs buffers. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal