From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: support for tty frames from windowed emacs session Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 00:30:40 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9628-Sun09Mar2003003039+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <15977.15192.682739.618251@groovy.cassandra.org> <5x3clx4iow.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047163029 11914 80.91.224.249 (8 Mar 2003 22:37:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: arc@cassandra.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 23:37:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18rmwG-000361-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:37:08 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18rnHk-0004Hu-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:59:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rmwE-0001Q6-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 17:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rmvO-0000Nd-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 17:36:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rmv5-0007ms-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 17:36:00 -0500 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rmuy-0007LC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 17:35:48 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky ([80.230.235.19]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AIB89468; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 00:35:28 +0200 (IST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <5x3clx4iow.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12187 > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > Date: 08 Mar 2003 23:06:23 +0100 > > I would like to know more specifically what functionality is > requested here. It's in etc/TODO: * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. > What qualifies as a "tty" in this regard? Any character-mode display, I think. > I never thought I needed this -- why is it important? Alex explained why. > If we create more than one such frame on different ttys, should they > be able to use different TERMINFO entries? Probably. > Although there might not be _major_ technical problems, I don't think > it will be trivial to implement. Trivial, no. But neither is it rocket science, I think.