Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:4757 gnu.emacs:229 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: GNU Emacs Message-ID:Date: 30 Nov 88 22:42:23 GMT References: <828@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <28173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <10960@bigtex.cactus.org> <8791@wright.mips.COM> <1138@csuchico.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 26 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. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------