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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Need Some Advice..
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 22:23:41 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan CITI
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- In article <LUTZ.92Nov19154035@hepburn.anes.upmc.edu>, lutz@hepburn.anes.upmc.edu (John Lutz) writes:
-
- Well, I have been following this thread for a while now and feel I need to
- pipe in. Two words. tcsh - emacs.
- As far as i am concerned, an xterm running tcsh beats the hell out of
- a pad: command completion(for *real*), full shell programming that looks and
- acts like the programming language that I work with all the time, fast (try
- more in a pad. (ho hum into raw mode, ho hum clear the screen, ho hum, display
- the text, ho hum hit <return> (!?!?!?!?!?!?) to go back into cooked mode.
-
- Running 'more' in a pad would be pretty stupid. It defeats the whole
- purpose of using a pad. I could just as legitimately fault emacs for its
- poor performance when running 'vi' (the real program, not the emulation
- mode) in a buffer.
-
- I'm a fan of emacs myself, but there is one thing it won't do. It won't
- properly interleave the input and output in a shell window. No program that
- uses ptys to talk to the shell can do that as far as I know. The DM uses a
- special 'pad' device to do this.
-