Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Hongxu Chen]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 12.05.2013 um 00:32 schrieb Jai Dayal:
>
>> so if
>> you're not willing to do a little extra work and expect me to prove the
>> most basic trivial things, I'm going to ask you to put something on the
>> line, i.e., when I show you Vim's calculus plugins, you never post on this
>> mailing list again.  deal?
>
> Vi has an interface to shell level: :!. This way you can use expr, bc, or dc 
> to calculate something for vi – or use a GNU Emacs script for something less 
> comprehensible…
However this is inconvenient since Vim just forked a new shell
process. Now and then I forget whether the shell's parent process is Vim.
>
> A bit different is :!emacs -nw <RET> – now you are in GNU Emacs, in terminal, 
> as
> the subject announces, and can forget that you were in vi before and now are 
> not
> that limited. You can even files on some remote host! No plugin necessary.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire 
> catalogue.
>               –  Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897
>
>

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Regards,
Hongxu Chen