Re: support for tty frames from windowed emacs session

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: 08 Mar 2003 23:06:23 +0100
> 
> I would like to know more specifically what functionality is
> requested here.

It's in etc/TODO:

  * Support simultaneous tty and X frames.

> What qualifies as a "tty" in this regard?

Any character-mode display, I think.

> I never thought I needed this -- why is it important?

Alex explained why.

> If we create more than one such frame on different ttys, should they
> be able to use different TERMINFO entries?

Probably.

> Although there might not be _major_ technical problems, I don't think
> it will be trivial to implement.

Trivial, no.  But neither is it rocket science, I think.