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authorKaroly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>2004-02-20 03:02:04 +0000
committerKaroly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>2004-02-20 03:02:04 +0000
commitaaaf7fe1673a2a5ece2eebaccf2d67a60e9938eb (patch)
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parente5299d8d654237697301709aacfa65d58858cb07 (diff)
downloademacs-aaaf7fe1673a2a5ece2eebaccf2d67a60e9938eb.tar.gz
README updates.
git-archimport-id: lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-86
Diffstat (limited to 'README.multi-tty')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/README.multi-tty b/README.multi-tty
index 477bbb39ffe..aeec31a5f6a 100644
--- a/README.multi-tty
+++ b/README.multi-tty
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ below homepage and following its instructions.
Please note that the multi-tty mailing list is read-only, and is
reserved for automatic commit messages. Discussion about the branch
and bug reports should be sent directly to me (lorentey@elte.hu), or
-to the emacs-devel@gnu.org mailing list.
+to the emacs-devel@gnu.org mailing list. (I hope to merge my branch
+into CVS HEAD reasonably soon, so I don't want to set up an elaborate
+development infrastructure for the multi-tty branch.)
STATUS
------
@@ -58,15 +60,16 @@ The branch is now very stable and almost full-featured. I hope the
major problems were fixed. (It still needs testing on other
architectures, though.) Both multiple tty device support and
simultaneous X and tty frame support works fine. Emacsclient has been
-extended to support opening a new terminal frame.
+extended to support opening new tty and X frames. It has been changed
+open new Emacs frames by default.
Please let me know if you find any bugs in this branch.
HOW TO COMPILE AND TEST
-----------------------
-To try it out, compile and run the multi-tty branch with the following
-commands:
+To try out the multi-tty branch, compile and run the multi-tty branch
+with the following commands:
mkdir +build
cd +build
@@ -77,6 +80,8 @@ commands:
and then (from a shell prompt on another terminal) start emacsclient
with
+ lib-src/emacsclient /optional/file/names...
+or
lib-src/emacsclient -t /optional/file/names...
You'll hopefully have two fully working, independent frames on
@@ -132,11 +137,9 @@ For the NEWS file:
testing for the `multi-tty' feature.
*** Emacsclient has been extended to support opening a new terminal
- frame (see -t option).
-
-*** The behaviour of Emacsclient has been changed to open a new Emacs
- frame by default. Use the -c option to get the old behavior of
- opening files in the currently selected Emacs frame.
+ frame. Its behaviour has been changed to open a new Emacs frame by
+ default. Use the -c option to get the old behavior of opening
+ files in the currently selected Emacs frame.
*** A make-frame-on-tty function has been added to make it easier to
create frames on new terminals.
@@ -170,6 +173,7 @@ Romain Francoise <romain at orebokech dot com>
Ami Fischman <ami at fischman dot org>
Istvan Marko <mi-mtty ar kismala dot com>
Dan Nicolaescu <dann at ics dot uci dot edu>
+Mark Plaksin <happy at mcplaksin dot org>
Richard Stallman was kind enough to review my patches.