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From: mly@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Mlynarik)
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Subject: Emacs as a login shell / Common-lisp imdentation
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Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 12:30:00 EDT
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I find Emacs quite acceptable to use as a login shell.

The emacs terminal emulator (m-x terminal-emulator) may be used when
one needs to run ``display'' programs.  (This isn't often necessary,
since un*x' and most un*x programs' model of an input device is at
best an asr33.  Un*x: Putting yesterday in the future today.)

The only problem is that Emacs expects the terminal type to be setup
when it is invoked and some ways of logging in to un*x systems (eg
telnet) do not preset the terminal type.  I always use SUPDUP, so this
never bothers me.




As to indentation for common lisp, see the file "cl-indent" in the
18.48 distribution.  It should do everything which has been requested.
In particular, it knows about FLET and company.
"(setq lisp-indent-hook 'common-lisp-indent-hook)" turns it on.