From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ben.britain.eu.net ([192.91.199.254]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <24092>; Mon, 24 Jan 1994 11:43:44 -0500 Received: from a.gec-epl.co.uk by ben.britain.eu.net via PSS with NIFTP (PP) id ; Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:43:03 +0000 Received: by cuthbert.sdd (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13692; Mon, 24 Jan 94 16:41:24 GMT Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 11:41:24 -0500 From: steve@gec-epl.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane) Message-Id: <9401241641.AA13692@cuthbert.sdd> To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: sam + ptys, anyone? i've often wondered about this, but the 'emacs-ism' of it all has put me off. plus, of course, it would complicate sam no end, i suspect. i think a better way to do it would be to just get Help (or whatever rob's latest GUI was). Kind of layer shell, terminal driver, editor, window system and sam system, so that it takes the capability into account, rather than it being kludged in. Of course, if you can do it in a 10-line patch, i'll use it. :-) steve