From: Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Terminal emulator in Windows
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:19:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24jsxf91j.fsf@eduroam-193-157-249-117.wlan.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871qo1fcoc.fsf@yahoo.com
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:14:54 +0800
>>>
>>> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>>>
>>> > In general, is it possible to implement Windows terminal emulation?
>>>
>>> Since MS Windows has never been used connected to text terminals, what
>>> would be the point?
>>
>> I don't think this is accurate. Windows XP implements the telnet
>> protocol, so you can connect to it from a remote system.
>>
>>> AFAIU it is possible to run command.com in a shell buffer, but when you
>>> do that you cannot restart the system without it being wedged. I think
>>> that is the more important thing to fix, but I don't know where to
>>> start.
>>
>> I'm not sure I see the relevance. cmd.exe can indeed be run via
>> "M-x shell", but that's not a terminal emulator, since terminal
>> commands (like cursor movement and colors) are not supported.
>> "M-x shell" is just a simple text-mode interface to the shell
>> and any console commands you run.
>
> Right, but Windows doesn't have a native, terminal interface with cursor
> movement, correct?
I believe Windows got one relatively recently, see this blog post from
2018:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-11 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-10 8:08 Terminal emulator in Windows Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-10 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-10 16:15 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-10 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 9:35 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-11 10:14 ` Po Lu
2023-01-11 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 13:01 ` Po Lu
2023-01-11 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 14:19 ` Rudolf Schlatte [this message]
2023-01-11 15:18 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-11 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 18:27 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-11 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 15:26 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-11 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 15:11 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-11 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 17:31 ` Jim Porter
2023-01-11 18:26 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-11 19:52 ` Jim Porter
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