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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Running GNU emacs from a shell
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Date: 23 Oct 90 19:01:00 GMT
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(1) Shell has no terminal emulation built-in, so you can't run emacs from a
shell. Stuart supposedly fixes this, and supersedes both shell and terminal
in the OS Release 2.0.

(2) Indeed, Terminal is slow. Worse, it also occasionally screws up with
highlighting etc. Again, this will presumably disappear in 2.0.

(3) Communicae runs Emacs quite nicely and quickly, but costs $$$.

(4) The best way to run Emacs is the gnu-emacs adaptation by John Myers for
NeXTStep. To redefine keys only in this version of emacs, try
	(if (string= (getenv "TERM") "eterm")
	    (global-set-key "\C-x\C-c" 'eterm-hide-emacs))
A new version should be out any day now, and I am looking forward to it.

(5) Suspending Emacs (^Z) should never make it go away. It just waits in the
background until you continue it (%%).


/ivo welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu