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From: rees@dabo.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: DM-like editor under X11
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Date: 29 Apr 91 17:58:35 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.140019.8433@ttsi.lonestar.org>, root@ttsi.lonestar.org (System) writes:

  >What I'd like to see more than the DM editor is DM pads.

  It seems to me that the easiest way to approach this is through the Epoch
  extensions to GNU emacs which enables multiple windows (pads if you will)
  to be popped.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you've missed the point.  There are two
features of DM pads that I don't think you can get from emacs shells:

1.  The ability to edit input before it gets eaten by the shell.  I don't
mean in a separate buffer that you have to arrange to use ahead of time, I
mean in the shell window itself.

2.  Correct ordering of input and output.  For example, if I type "sleep 4
<nl> echo foo <nl>" the output should look like this
	% sleep 4
	% echo foo
	foo
	%
not like this
	% sleep 4
	echo foo
	% foo
	%

I believe that at least feature no. 2 requires mods to the pty driver.