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From: hymie@dvm.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: running processes under GNUemacs
Message-ID: <117@dvm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Nov-86 05:49:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 27 05:49:13 1986
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References: <7229@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <8611220524.AA04844@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen)
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In article <8611220524.AA04844@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> jr@CC5.BBN.COM (John Robinson) writes:
>This doesn't really answer Dave's query, but I have often mused about
>a sort of "inverse curses" package, if you will, that will take a
>{file, region, pipe, whatever} and interpret what comes through it as
>though it were some particular terminal, with the result being the
>final appearance you would have on your screen had you fed the
>{whatever} to the terminal in question (I know this is fuzzy - it's
>been a tough week).
>
>Has anyone ever heard of such a beast (I know it may not be the right
>group for this message, but as I said, my head is too fuzzy to try to
>post elsewhere right now)?
>
>/jr
>jr@cc5.bbn.com or jr@bbnccv.uucp

What this amounts to is a terminal emulator. This is certainly not difficult
to do, as witness all of those available on PCs. What I would this most useful
for is shell mode. I would be able to run vi, or rogue, or hack in a window
and have the appropriate display. And most usefule of all, I could be running
these programs on another machine that I have connected to via tip or kermit.

Anyway, these being my applications, I don't need a mode that emulates a
specific terminal. I would be happy enough to make a "gnu" entry in my termcap
(or terminfo) file for special sequences that emacs would handle.
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