Re: Running a terminal app (gnubg) in emacs

[J . Burton]

At Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:34:03 +0800,
Andy Stewart wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You can use multi-term.el that i created.
> Have detail describe at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/MultiTerm
> 
> Enjoy!
>

Thanks Andy, I'll give it a try.

Jim 
>   -- 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
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