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[RP] Re: what about... (features)
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twb |
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[RP] Re: what about... (features) |
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Thu May 1 03:11:06 2003 |
Quoth Michael Livshin <address@hidden>
> while folks are thinking in this direction, how about writing a
> simple (in theory, at least) Emacs <-> ratpoison glue, so that you'd
> have a dedicated Emacs instance running all the time, unmapped, and
> pop up a special minibuffer-only (or not) frame for RP command input.
>
> pluses:
>
> . no need to spawn a whole new xterm process for each command
You can do this with an xterm, too.
1) Call an RP-input (C-t !). This makes a new xterm and maps it.
2) The next time a newline is pressed, pass it on to xterm and unmap it.
3) Next time C-t ! is pressed, map the xterm again.
You still have to (un)map it, but it's not a whole new process.
-twb