Re: gnuclient from within a tty shell mode?

Valdis> My pet peev is that DISPLAY isn't available (which has bit Valdis> me a few times, if I'm SSH'ed into a net-slow box I Valdis> probably want 'use an existing frame on THIS display' Valdis> semantics (as opening a whole new frame may take 10-15 Valdis> seconds). And as you noted in (2), using the value of Valdis> DISPLAY that the XEmacs end has is Totally Wrong, since Valdis> you may not even be in the same time zone. ;) This sounds like a job for ... Specifierman! Except that there's no 'ssh-d-into-a-net-slow-box display type. It sounds like something that would be worth taking a hack at. What kind of API do you need? Ie, suppose there were a variable `gnuclient-environmental-conditions'. What kinds of questions would you want to ask it, and what kinds of answers do you want in what conditions? Or maybe gnuclient should somehow intervene in the environment that getenv sees? (That's too evil to actually implement I suspect, but it might suggest something more appropriate.) Maybe there could be a display-local environment process environment? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.