From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: 6 May 2013 15:29:12 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367855111 28922 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2013 15:45:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:45:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 06 17:45:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UZNbB-0003r7-70 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 17:45:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZNbA-0003ti-Ss for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 11:45:08 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: individual.net cOdCtfW97MoV0ANhD9yZ/Q+3lj4cuwB8KBO4Y6j167mea7MaMr Cancel-Lock: sha1:67YqngN2oG74DUhMeUxxeHVDHWc= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198265 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 06 May 2013 11:44:59 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90531 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Steven! > > Steven Degutis wrote: >> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor? > > "The" terminal? There are several. I run Emacs in a Linux virtual > terminal, unless forced to use a GUI setup - e.g. for testing elisp. > > Why? Because I want to run Emacs without distractions, without window > borders, without the mouse, without faffing around with fonts, and with my > Emacs frame filling the _whole_ screen. As somebody else said, why use a > graphic environment for manipulating pure text? A GUI is a general > unspecific mush, whereas a TUI is optimised for text. > > Setting up Emacs on the virtual terminal is some work, agreed; Then why bother, if you can have a full-screen Emacs without scroll bar, menu bar, tool bar, window borders etc. but *with* all the "ease" of running Emacs under X? Not that I'd be in favour of removing support for using Emacs in a (virtual) terminal, though. I use it myself sometimes for testing Elisp code in a VM (my 5yo computer would grind to a halt if I'd run X in a VM...) -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)