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Re: Gnu Emacs and gnuclient
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Gnu Emacs and gnuclient |
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:56:58 +0100 |
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Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> I *love* the Multi-tty features. If the XEmacs team doesn't get
> their act together any time soon, I will do the switch away from my
> beloved XEmacs because of this feature alone (Sigh).
Uh, what?
The whole point of the awfully overdesigned
locale/specifier/instantiator system in XEmacs that has from the
beginning made it impossible for anybody but the very gifted to
actually program and/or understand code seriously making use of images
and toolbars has been the support of multiple ttys with different
capabilities.
Consequently, XEmacs' gnuclient can open a frame right in the
gnuclient tty. It's been a selling point of XEmacs for decades,
actually.
Now as far as I can tell, the programming APIs of Emacs' multi-tty
support will be much much easier to understand and use.
But the basic _feature_ has, as far as I can judge, been available to
users pretty much from the beginning of Lucid Emacs' separate
existence.
I can't think of any feature gap that took Emacs longer to close.
So as long as you are talking about the user-level feature (and not
the programmers' API), I am somewhat at a loss about why this would
make you consider a switch.
I am certainly not above XEmacs-bashing, but I would not have thought
user-level multi-tty support a suitable area. It's been around in
XEmacs from very early on as far as I can tell. So could you
elaborate?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum