Re: Running a terminal app (gnubg) in emacs

[Andy Stewart]

Hi,

You can use multi-term.el that i created.
Have detail describe at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/MultiTerm

Enjoy!

  -- Andy

J.Burton@brighton.ac.uk writes:

> Hi, I want to run the ascii version of gnugb in emacs and can't find a
> terminal mode that will work reliably with it. The closest is
> ansi-term which runs fine for some time but then starts garbling the
> output (which is ascii backgammon boards and game info etc). What
> seems to happen is that none of the new output is shown except the
> final line and I can't find a way to get it back to sanity. (I tried
> switching line/char modes and killing the contents of the buffer and
> using the gnubg commands to redisplay the board etc.)  I am pretty
> sure it isn't a gnubg bug because I've played it in xterm for long
> periods with no such problem. I also checked their bug tracker.
>
> I don't think eshell or plain M-x shell suffer from this problem but
> they don't do tab completion, which is extremely useful for gnubg. Any
> ideas?
>
> (Copied bug-gnubg@gnu.org because I thought they might have a clue and
> can't find another list for gnubg...?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Burton