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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 15:13:11 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie  <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>
>>Are you suggesting you're willing to put in the work to remove terminal
>>support from Emacs?  It'd be a lot of work.  What would be the point?
>
> Exactly. And if anyone is seriously proposing to remove terminal support,
> could they also implement all of the necessary ATK interfaces to enable my
> braille display to be used with Emacs under X11 and GTK? It works wonderfully
> at the console and also over ssh connections, thanks to the terminal display
> code in Emacs, removal of which would be a major regression for my use cases.
>
> I should mention that I use Emacspeak for speech output and highly recommend
> it; Emacspeak can run equally well in a terminal or under X, but for braille
> access (using a refreshable braille device) Emacs really must be run in a
> terminal session.

As for the usage patterns, I should mention that it occurs often enough
that I use both terminal frames and X11 frames.

(And if Cocoa emacs was able to do it, I would also use X11 or terminal
frames at the same time with a Cocoa window).

Since I reboot emacs only when I need to reboot the underlying kernel, I
connect to my emacs instances thru any kind of interface.  I have on my
desktop a MacOSX, a Linux and a MS-Windows-7 system, and I may also
connect to it remotely.  Therefore I may want to make frames from any of
those interfaces to the same emacs instance.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.


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