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Re: Interactive programs and dumb terminals (emacs shell)
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Interactive programs and dumb terminals (emacs shell) |
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Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:09:55 +0900 |
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> alias apt-get='xterm -display :0.0 -e apt-get'
Well the basic point is good, but for apt-get in particular, why?
apt-get should work fine in Emacs shell mode... shell mode basically
implements a dumb terminal, but it _can_ handle stuff like using
carriage-return to update a single-line progress display -- and that's
basically all that apt-get uses.
-Miles
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