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From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs
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Date: 30 Nov 88 22:42:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: ronald@csuchico.EDU's message of 30 Nov 88 00:26:53 GMT

In article <1138@csuchico.EDU> ronald@csuchico.EDU (Ronald Cole) writes:

   That brings an interesting question to mind...  Is GNU Emacs appropriate
   as a login shell?  The manual certaintly seems to imply that to be the case.
   Has anyone done this?

I haven't and don't plan to, the shell mode is just not complete
enough It might not be so bad if you only had an ascii terminal and
couldn't telnet or rlogin into any place else but if you do windows or
use other computers then it would be horrible.

Now if only emacs could make a window? (ala X) instead of splitting
the screen and had a terminal-emulator with a complete termcap that
other editors could use then maybe.


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