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Re: emacs as a service
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: emacs as a service |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:40:05 +0300 |
> From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:41:42 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> >> *** Emacs now supports using both X displays and ttys in one session.
> >
> > X11?? I am on Windows!
>
> Well, Windows is not the native platform for Emacs, as such descriptions
> might not always cater towards it.
>
> I don't know if this feature is currently working in Windows (it is
> still under development), but it's rather safe to assume it will
> eventually.
Actually, it's rather doubtful that multi-tty will ever be supported
on Windows, because it relies on behavior whose Windows equivalent is
almost completely undocumented. So unless some expert comes on board
who knows the internals of the Windows console, the hope for having
this feature on Windows is null and void.