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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:28:59 -0500 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Here, `terminal' is a catch-all term for an input/output device,
>> including both ttys (text-only terminals) and X/Win32-win/Nextstep
>> (graphical terminals). In contrast, tty should always refer to
>> text-only terminals.
>
> But there's no delete-tty or suspend-terminal.
That seems consistent to me. The delete-terminal function does
something useful on both text and graphical terminals: for ttys, it
returns control of the tty to the shell; on X, it closes the X
connection. On the other hand, suspending only makes sense for
text-only terminals: it is used to temporarily return control to the
shell. There is no analogous operation on graphical displays. Thus, we
provide suspend-tty rather than suspend-terminal.
- Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/27
- Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/27
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Chong Yidong, 2008/12/27
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/27
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/28
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/28
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Chong Yidong, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30