Bjorn Borud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | The idea is to start Emacs once and use it for everything. > > ...which is fine as long as you are only fiddling around on one > machine or you have emacs windows running on all your machines.
Tramp can be used to access files on other hosts. It even supports multi-hop stuff like 'ssh to $HOST and su to root.' One thing GNU emacs needs to support is the ability to open a new X or terminal window via a command. I think Xemacs can already do this. > also, I make extensive use of the readline and history features when > fiddling about in the shell. shells have a lot of context if you use > them effectively. context that isn't easy to transport between the > shell and emacs -- and it isn't really easy to explain either. M-x shell, or M-x terminal -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> That's just 'mostly dead.' What we are concerned with here is 'Pining for the Fjords' dead. --Mark Urbin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list