Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!bhaskar From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Unix culture considered harmful... Message-ID: <959@fluke.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Jun-83 19:37:46 EDT Article-I.D.: fluke.959 Posted: Sat Jun 4 19:37:46 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jun-83 13:09:28 EDT Lines: 18 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 On Usenet: {allegra,lbl-csam,microsoft,sb1,uw-beaver}!fluke!bhaskar