On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:59:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI consoles. > > I'd like verification of that. I remember my first run in with unix back > in my Netcom days. Even then screen was around. That was 10 years ago. > > If, and that's a big if, emacs were able to do the semi-virtual CLI thing > prior to screen (specialized tools and all that) I'd think it wouldn't be more > than a year's lead. > > > The world has changed since then. Ancient design decisions go obsolete. > > I'm using emacs inside my mail reader, instead of the other way around. > > And yet we still, in today's day and age, have people pointing others to > gnus as a viable mail client. Hate to say it but if gnus were so wonderful in > today's day and age it would be split out so everyone could use it, not just > emacs people. I understand that gnus takes a lot from emacs internals but > that is certainly not insurmountable else we'd have a far smaller > proliferation of clients.
I *definitely* remember using emacs like this. I do not remember what operating system it was on. It may well have been 15 years ago. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
