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Subject: Re:  Unix culture considered harmful...
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Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 18:25:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  5 18:25:40 1983
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From:  Chris Torek 

	From: 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