Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!gateway!talos.UUCP!kjones From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: running vi inside GNU emacs vs. ftp-find-file Message-ID: <8905191326.AA10787@talos.uucp> Date: 19 May 89 13:26:46 GMT References: <860007@hpcljms.HP.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Organization: BBN news/mail gateway Lines: 27 In article <860007@hpcljms.HP.COM> you write: > I believe that orignal idea was for "terminal.el" was to allow some > kind of terminal emulation, but apparently some cry-baby type that > was working on it decided it was more fun to add cuss words and > just complain about UNIX in general that to add any useful > functionallity. Poking your thumb in someone's eye isn't the best way to get them to write more free software. :-( Some of the terminal.el's shortcomings stem from limitations of the Emacs display code itself. For example highlighting can't be done correctly because Emacs' display code only knows how to highlight whole lines. And because you're in Emacs you can't use all the lines and columns on the screen. But these are minor things. The emulation itself work great. I've run Emacs and the terminal emulator recursively five levels deep and run the Life demo under all that, and it all worked flawlessly. If I want full screen shell windows with a VT100/ANSI emulator I use the `screen' program package by Oliver Laumann. Just what is it that you want terminal.el to do and it doesn't? Since you made vague comments about missing features, please post exactly what these missing features are. kyle jones ...!uunet!talos!kjones