Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cuae2!ltuxa!we53!sw013b!dj3b1!killer!ndmce!pollux!infotel!ut-ngp!ut-sally!seismo!think!nike!cit-vax!ll-xn!mit-amt!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU@ndmce.uucp (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: Bogus transient windows in Unipress Emacs Message-ID: <280@ndmce.uucp> Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 16:54:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ndmce.280 Posted: Fri Oct 17 16:54:45 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 05:33:50 EDT References: <3948@amdahl.UUCP> Sender: news@ndmce.uucp Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 Keywords: bogus,Unipress,transient The original poster has things backwards. Gosling invented the use of permanent buffers for transient information. It sounds as if Unipress finally excised it. Stallman's original EMACS for ITS and TOPS-20 did not have it, neither did Multics Emacs nor Lisp Machine Zwei. In the Unix world, CCA EMACS doesn't have it either. So, it seems as if Unipress opted for compatibility. Zwei, however, has a feature that solves the problem you have. There is a command (Execute Command To Buffer, I think it's called) which redirects transient output to a buffer. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar