New subject: [bug] Newline forced for stream consoles?

Tuesday, 12 January 1999

        Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
 Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; writes:  ...
...
> I think this misses the point of batch mode.  From time
immemorial
> 'batch' has implied 'non-interactive'.  So there should be no
> interactivity, and therefore no prompts. 
...
 Um.  Not exactly.  "Batch" mode can be used to write XEmacs
scripts,
 if anyone were crazy enough to write one. 
I don't think it's crazy.  It's very useful for massaging text.  I
like writing XEmacs -batch stuffs a lot more than I like writing stuff 
in the 4-letter p-word.

...
 By saying "no interactivity, no prompts," you exclude the
 possibility of an XEmacs script.  By your logic, the whole "stream
 console" implementation is mostly useless. 
...
 Also, FSF Emacs handles (lack of) newlines in batch mode just fine;
I
 don't see a compelling reason for us to sugar-coat the output. 
Neither do I.

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