Re: [bug] Newline forced for stream consoles?
>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Jones
<kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
Kyle> Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
> > How is this hurting dunnet?
>
> `xemacs -batch -l dunnet' displays ugly newlines after all the
> prompts. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Cf. with FSFmacs, which handles it
> correctly.
Kyle> I think this misses the point of batch mode. From time
Kyle> immemorial 'batch' has implied 'non-interactive'. So there
Kyle> should be no interactivity, and therefore no prompts.
I think this is an arbitrary restriction. Perhaps -stream would be a
better name for a option that allows a program to generally avoid
contact with the icky user, but still be able to if necessary. Like
`perl', for example.
So I agree with Hrvoje.
Emacs is a Lisp interpreter first, an editor second.
Martin