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Subject: Re: Query: Interesting Applications of Emacs
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Date: 28 Mar 89 12:31:08 GMT
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In article <430@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes:
>What is the difference between using pty's and using pipes for emacs
>subprocesses?

There are some programs that care whether they are being used
interactively or as part of a pipeline, using isatty() to check
whether the output is going to a terminal.  Shell mode uses a pty so
that they will know that they are being used interactively.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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