[RP] Re: what about... (features)

[twb]

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