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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>1992-07-14 02:41:33 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>1992-07-14 02:41:33 +0000
commitbe14d3120a2502e5f06ef905f3b3e40a62c08d15 (patch)
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@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
;;; merge them into the master source.
;;; - Olin Shivers (shivers@cs.cmu.edu)
-;;; This hopefully generalises shell mode, lisp mode, tea mode, soar mode,...
;;; This file defines a general command-interpreter-in-a-buffer package
;;; (comint mode). The idea is that you can build specific process-in-a-buffer
;;; modes on top of comint mode -- e.g., lisp, shell, scheme, T, soar, ....
@@ -1183,13 +1182,10 @@ it just adds completion characters to the end of the filename."
;;; Converting process modes to use comint mode
;;; ===========================================================================
-;;; Several gnu packages (tex-mode, background, dbx, gdb, kermit, prolog,
-;;; telnet are some) use the shell package as clients. Most of them would
-;;; be better off using the comint package, but they predate it.
+;;; The code in the Emacs 19 distribution has all been modified to use comint
+;;; where needed. However, there are `third-party' packages out there that
+;;; still use the old shell mode. Here's a guide to conversion.
;;;
-;;; Altering these packages to use comint mode should greatly
-;;; improve their functionality, and is fairly easy.
-;;;
;;; Renaming variables
;;; Most of the work is renaming variables and functions. These are the common
;;; ones: