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Re: Emacs with Guile


Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> While your statement is true generally, there will *always* be special
> occasions where you only have access to a simple character stream
> connection, and it can be so great to be able to run Emacs in those
> situations.

There are numerous protocols that support graphics on top of a simple
character stream.  After all, what is the xterm/ansi protocol but
such a protocol?  It supports color and font-changes, lines, frames,
and even mouse-clicks.  Extending the protocol to support images and
bit-map graphics isn't all that hard - DEC did it over a decade ago.
It seems the MGR window system (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/MGR-HOWTO.html)
may also be compatible with xterm (conceptually, I don't know about
the actual MGR protocol).
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	--Per Bothner
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