[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Rich Walker]

John Edwards <john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk> writes:

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:16:44PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
>> I use nano an embarrassing amount, because I'm always forgetting to 
>> forward X on my ssh connections, so I can't use emacs.
>
> Emacs should default to terminal mode if $DISPLAY is not set.
> If it doesn't then you can use the '-nw' option to force it.

Yes, yes it does, but then it takes over the entire terminal, which
means I need to open another one...

(I know about M-x shell, but it's broken for any real use of the
terminal. Which always seems funny. Is there a replacement for M-x shell
which supports a decent subset of termcap?)


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