Re: Release branch emacs-29

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:26:46 +0600
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > From now on please install bug fixes to the emacs-29 branch (they will be
>> > merged to master soon enough), while new features and improvements in
>> > existing features should be installed on master.
>> 
>> Is it possible to alias terminal "eat" to "xterm" in 'term-file-aliases'
>> in Emacs 29?
>
> I don't know what this would mean, so I cannot make up my mind.  Is it
> indeed the same as xterm?

Nope, but similar.  XTerm compatibility hasn't been achieved, yet.

>
>> It'll be nice to have a dedicated "term/eat.el" with all XTerm features
>> enabled (xterm-extra-capabilities), but I think it'd be better to add
>> this to Emacs 30.
>
> It is definitely an easier decision to add that on master.  But still, it
> would be best to hear the reasons why you think this is a valid alias.

Because it allows to get all the XTerm benefits (like extra keybindings,
clipboard) in Eat.  And if you don't know what's Eat, it's a terminal
emulator package I wrote.

I have "eat" aliased to "xterm" so a month or two in my init file, and
it works fine on my Emacs.

But, Stefan Monnier suggested that including term/eat.el in my package
would also work.  So I think I should try that first, since the people
using Emacs in Eat would probably have Eat installed, am I right?

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