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Re: what is TERM?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: what is TERM? |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:00:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > In that manner, one can, for example, use Emacs on the local
> > machine for reading Usenet and sending Mail to the remote machine
> > where one just has a normal terminal account.
> >
> > It is probably not used all too much anymore: pure terminal
> > dialups have become rather rare. One reference I found on the web
> > is
> > <URL:http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/usage/term_howto.html>.
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation!
>
> So is it worth keeping this code?
> To use this code one would have to hack the build system to use an
> undocumented flag (-DTERM), and to want to use network connections in
> emacs in a not very common setup.
Well, I certainly had no reasonable alternatives 15 years ago.
Nowadays, it is probably easier to get a PPP connection than an
unprivileged shell login account, I guess. So at least I don't have a
use for it anymore. I don't see much evidence for others still using
it. We can probably remove it and wait to see whether anybody
complains.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum