Running a terminal app (gnubg) in emacs

Running a terminal app (gnubg) in emacs

[J.Burton]

Hi, I want to run the ascii version of gnugb in emacs and can't find a
terminal mode that will work reliably with it. The closest is
ansi-term which runs fine for some time but then starts garbling the
output (which is ascii backgammon boards and game info etc). What
seems to happen is that none of the new output is shown except the
final line and I can't find a way to get it back to sanity. (I tried
switching line/char modes and killing the contents of the buffer and
using the gnubg commands to redisplay the board etc.)  I am pretty
sure it isn't a gnubg bug because I've played it in xterm for long
periods with no such problem. I also checked their bug tracker.

I don't think eshell or plain M-x shell suffer from this problem but
they don't do tab completion, which is extremely useful for gnubg. Any
ideas?

(Copied bug-gnubg@gnu.org because I thought they might have a clue and
can't find another list for gnubg...?)

Thanks,

Jim Burton

Re: Running a terminal app (gnubg) in emacs

[Andy Stewart]

Hi,

You can use multi-term.el that i created.
Have detail describe at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/MultiTerm

Enjoy!

  -- Andy

J.Burton@brighton.ac.uk writes:

> Hi, I want to run the ascii version of gnugb in emacs and can't find a
> terminal mode that will work reliably with it. The closest is
> ansi-term which runs fine for some time but then starts garbling the
> output (which is ascii backgammon boards and game info etc). What
> seems to happen is that none of the new output is shown except the
> final line and I can't find a way to get it back to sanity. (I tried
> switching line/char modes and killing the contents of the buffer and
> using the gnubg commands to redisplay the board etc.)  I am pretty
> sure it isn't a gnubg bug because I've played it in xterm for long
> periods with no such problem. I also checked their bug tracker.
>
> I don't think eshell or plain M-x shell suffer from this problem but
> they don't do tab completion, which is extremely useful for gnubg. Any
> ideas?
>
> (Copied bug-gnubg@gnu.org because I thought they might have a clue and
> can't find another list for gnubg...?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Burton

Re: Running a terminal app (gnubg) in emacs

[J.Burton]

At Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:34:03 +0800,
Andy Stewart wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You can use multi-term.el that i created.
> Have detail describe at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/MultiTerm
> 
> Enjoy!
>

Thanks Andy, I'll give it a try.

Jim 
>   -- Andy
> 
> J.Burton@brighton.ac.uk writes:
> 
> > Hi, I want to run the ascii version of gnugb in emacs and can't find a
> > terminal mode that will work reliably with it. The closest is
> > ansi-term which runs fine for some time but then starts garbling the
> > output (which is ascii backgammon boards and game info etc). What
> > seems to happen is that none of the new output is shown except the
> > final line and I can't find a way to get it back to sanity. (I tried
> > switching line/char modes and killing the contents of the buffer and
> > using the gnubg commands to redisplay the board etc.)  I am pretty
> > sure it isn't a gnubg bug because I've played it in xterm for long
> > periods with no such problem. I also checked their bug tracker.
> >
> > I don't think eshell or plain M-x shell suffer from this problem but
> > they don't do tab completion, which is extremely useful for gnubg. Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > (Copied bug-gnubg@gnu.org because I thought they might have a clue and
> > can't find another list for gnubg...?)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim Burton
> 
> 
>