A day in the life of emacs [LWN.net]

A day in the life of emacs

Posted Mar 3, 2005 4:36 UTC (Thu) by dhess (subscriber, #7827)
Parent article: A day in the life of emacs

Does the CVS version of emacs support attaching a gnuclient/emacsclient from a tty to a gnuserver/emacsserver that was started by an X11 emacs?

This feature is useful if you have, say, a gnus session running at work on your X11 workstation, and you want to attach to it to read email from home over an ssh connection without forwarding X11.

The current release of emacs doesn't support this feature. I dug around on the mailing lists and saw something from one of the emacs developers to the tune of, "We can't do it because of the design of the emacs event loop."

XEmacs does support this feature, and it's the main reason I use XEmacs.

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A day in the life of emacs

Posted Mar 3, 2005 8:04 UTC (Thu) by dann (subscriber, #11621) [Link]

No, it does not, but the multi-tty branch does.
See: http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.html.en
That branch that tracks CVS head very closely supports multiple terminal
and X11 frames at the same time, even terminal frames on terminals
supporting only 8 colors at the same time with terminal frames on
256 color terminals. It works greak.