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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: talk-mode for Emacs
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Date: 22 Nov 88 15:31:30 GMT
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In article <828@ubu.warwick.UUCP> arl@warwick.UUCP (Ade Lovett) writes:
>One of the features I find lacking in Emacs is a suitable front-end
>to the talk program.

Shouldn't be that tough for a decent Lisp hacquer (of which I'm not an
example) to do the talk protocol in Emacs Lisp - but what a weird
idea!

I'd like to know the name of the person who originally made the observation:
	"Emacs is a nice environment.  And I've heard that there's a
	 decent screen editor in there somewhere, too!"

>Such a utility would enable me to initiate and receive talk requests
>without having to leave emacs (as I am forced to do so at the
>moment).

If you don't have a window system running, how about suspend-emacs,
often bound to C-X C-Z on systems that have job control?