Re: output subsystem and syntax parsing

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> IMHO the output subsystem is far more urgent than the syntax parser.
> But I think both can wait until after the next release.

Yes, that's my opinion too.

> As a stop-gap measure, to get some output showing in the GUI, I can 
> hack something together to display ascii text in a window.  I tried
> something like this some time ago.  Unfortunately the asynchronous
> nature of the existing ascii driver means that nothing gets written,
> until the driver is closed, which makes it somewhat unsuitable for
> interactive use.  If it's simple to fix that, then it might be an easy
> way to get at least some sort of output available in the GUI.

Yes, I think it should be possible.
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Ben Pfaff 
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