Re: Terminal emulator in Windows

[Rudolf Schlatte]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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?

I believe Windows got one relatively recently, see this blog post from
2018:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/