Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!mit-vax!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay From: chris.umcp-cs%UDel-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: Unix culture considered harmful... Message-ID: <1786@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 18:25:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1786 Posted: Sun Jun 5 18:25:40 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 15:17:37 EDT Lines: 28 From: Chris TorekFrom: K.S. Bhaskar . . . Essentially, I would like to make an emacs buffer look like a terminal to a program like notesfile, so that the escape sequences coming out of Unix are translated to appropriate mlisp commands so that the buffer looks reasonably like a terminal screen (the program would have to be written in mlisp). Does anyone have such a beastie? Well, we have somthing similar: the "window shell" (wsh). This, along with a window library (based on Gosling's Emacs display update and some of the ideas in Emacs [e.g. separate buffers and windows]), does just that. (Come to think of it, part of the wsh is based on ideas in Emacs -- using multiplexed files to simulate a terminal.) This will all be distributable once we clean it up and so forth (to keep the lawyers happy). Is there anyone who disagrees that it is desirable to invent the human interface once and have this re-used? Is there anything better than Gosling's emacs available today (or in the near future) for this purpose? But then how could we amaze people with our arcane knowledge of hundreds of different interfaces? :-) - Chris