Re: terminal emulation

["René Kyllingstad" <listmailemacs@kyllingstad.com>]

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nterm supports Aptitude:

http://kanis.fr/nterm.html


-- René
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 20:43, <axel.junker@safe-mail.net> wrote:

> I am using GNU Emacs as the environment for all my daily computing tasks on
> my GNU Linux system. So far I am really content with what Emacs already
> provides - Gnus, org-mode, Dired, shell-mode, etc. There is just one thing
> that is bugging me. Ocasionally I have to fall back to an external terminal
> emulator (e.g. gnome-terminal) to run ncursed based applications like
> aptitude. Is there any way to run such applications from within emacs?
> shell-mode obviously does not work, and both M-x term and M-x
> terminal-emulator are broken. (Try aptitude in either one of them).
> In particular, I would like to have a terminal emulator that is a real
> emulator without any nitty gritty. That is, any key press is directly
> forwarded to the underlying terminal, except for one escape character (e.g.
> C-c).
> Does that make sense? Is there any interest in patching term to support
> that?
>
> -- Axel
>
>

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