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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Query: Interesting Applications of Emacs
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Date: 21 Mar 89 17:19:52 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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