Re: Emacs with Guile

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>]

Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> My feeling is that traditional console support is becoming less
> and less important.  How many people actually use consoles whose
> hardware actually cannot support graphics?  I do use xterm and similar
> consoles a lot

Me too.  I use it very often, and think Emacs' text console support is
essential.

> but is there any reason you couldn't have real
> graphics and windows embedded in xterm or the Linux console?

The reason has to do with two things: simplicity and the basic need of
a text editor.

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.  I'm thinking of situations like trying to get X working
on a new machine, working with an embedded system, etc.

I would be very surprised if the telnet protocol wasn't still in use
in certain situations ten years from now.