Re: Terminal emulator in Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: akib@disroot.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:01:07 +0800
> 
> 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 think it does, but it is almost never used.  I remember at some
point logging into a Windows system via telnet, which emulated vt100.