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Subject: Unix culture considered harmful...
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Date: Sat, 4-Jun-83 19:26:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  4 19:26:00 1983
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From:  K.S. Bhaskar  

Does anyone have an inverse termcap filter?  One problem with Unix is that
there is a ridiculous lack of sharing of code -- everyone is busy re-inventing
the wheel.  For example, screen-oriented interaction with the user is a
tremendous improvement over the tty paradigm of most Unix software, but
everyone writes his own screen oriented human interface, instead of building
on something like emacs.  I can't fight this, so, I am looking for an even
more contorted piece of absurdity that will improve my overall human
interface.  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?  Is my question ridiculous?  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?

K.S. Bhaskar, John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, Washington
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