Re: Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers]

[Alan Mackenzie]

'Evening, Stefan!

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:13:29PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> and that is ok, people can continue not to use them.  But getting rid
> >> of them would just mean trouble.
> > Too damn right it would!  I'd start screaming!

> Hello?  It's me!
> Do you really think I'd suggest to plainly throw away tty frames?
> Seriously?

No, of course not, not you!  It was actually Richard who brought the
issue up, but he wouldn't get rid of them either.

People sometimes express the opinion that TTYs have been superseded by
GUIs, sometimes they express it forcefully, and sometimes offensively
(though this hasn't happened on this thread).  It doesn't hurt,
sometimes, to remind people that this is not the case.

>         Stefan

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremnberg, Germany).