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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? |
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Sun, 5 May 2013 10:14:22 +0000 (UTC) |
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Hi, Steven!
Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor?
"The" terminal? There are several. I run Emacs in a Linux virtual
terminal, unless forced to use a GUI setup - e.g. for testing elisp.
Why? Because I want to run Emacs without distractions, without window
borders, without the mouse, without faffing around with fonts, and with my
Emacs frame filling the _whole_ screen. As somebody else said, why use a
graphic environment for manipulating pure text? A GUI is a general
unspecific mush, whereas a TUI is optimised for text.
Setting up Emacs on the virtual terminal is some work, agreed; you have
to extend the rather sparse keyboard layouts, and then teach Emacs how to
understand the new keyboard codes; working with several frames can be
awkward, so I wrote a little utility for key <Fn> to switch to frame n.
But the effort is worth it. To me, being able to run Emacs on a terminal
is one of its chief attractions.
> For me it's rather the other way around, I use the terminal within my
> editor (eshell).
You can do that on a terminal too. :-)
> Seems like there's no real point in supporting terminal-mode in a text
> editor these days.
Well, thanks very much! I believe that Richard Stallman uses Emacs on a
virtual terminal.
It is sometimes useful to have an editor available during installation of
a GUI, before that GUI is usable.
Are you suggesting you're willing to put in the work to remove terminal
support from Emacs? It'd be a lot of work. What would be the point?
> -Steven
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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