Paul Smith wrote:
> Anyway, screen is not the same thing _at all_.
Never said it was. I was asking for confirmation that Emacs predated the
ability to have multiple virtual CLIs. I quoted a single line, not the entire
message. Be that as it may I'll run with your misconception of my point...
> you can see many buffers at the same time,
Screen, multiple views.
> you can cut and paste between them,
Screen, C&P between different windows (^A[ and ^A]).
> you can insert one into the other
Better known as reading a file into the middle of another, that's not
unique to multi-buffer editors.
> you can compare them,
Diff, or if you mean just a quick visual glance, multiple windows in screen.
> Emacs let you deal with mail, news, edit lots of code at the same time,
> plus it had a file manager, could run your compiles, and a bunch of
> other stuff... all with a unified and flexible interface.
I see nothing in there screen cannot enable someone to do. Screen is the
multiplexor that would allow someone to deal with mail, news, edit lots of
code, use a file manater, run compiles and a bunch of other stuff. "Unified
interface" is just another word for "monolithic" and really doesn't apply.
Only a few items really need to be "unified" between applications. The rest
is just hand-waving to make it seem like you're not learning keys for two
different functions.
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