Re: Terminal emulator in Windows

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:14:54 +0800
>> 
>> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>> 
>> > In general, is it possible to implement Windows terminal emulation?
>> 
>> Since MS Windows has never been used connected to text terminals, what
>> would be the point?
>
> I don't think this is accurate.  Windows XP implements the telnet
> protocol, so you can connect to it from a remote system.
>
>> AFAIU it is possible to run command.com in a shell buffer, but when you
>> do that you cannot restart the system without it being wedged.  I think
>> that is the more important thing to fix, but I don't know where to
>> start.
>
> I'm not sure I see the relevance.  cmd.exe can indeed be run via
> "M-x shell", but that's not a terminal emulator, since terminal
> commands (like cursor movement and colors) are not supported.
> "M-x shell" is just a simple text-mode interface to the shell
> and any console commands you run.

Right, but Windows doesn't have a native, terminal interface with cursor
movement, correct?

As far as I know, mintty and other tools are for the Cygwin Unix
environment, and term.el does work on a Cygwin build of Emacs.