diff README.multi-tty @ 83065:a871be7b26a5

Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames. lib-src/emacsclient.c (quote_file_name): Renamed to quote_argument. (unquote_argument, handle_sigcont, handle_sigtstp): New functions. (out, in): New global variables for communicating with the Emacs process. (init_signals): Set up handlers for SIGCONT, SIGTSTP and SIGTTOU. (main): Changed out and in to global variables. Prepend `-eval' or '-file' to each argument. Use fsync to force sending the strings to Emacs. Removed obsolete -bad-version code. Support the -suspend command. Cleaned up newline handling. lisp/frame.el (suspend-frame): New function. Substitute key definition of suspend-emacs with suspend-frame. lisp/server.el (server-log): Cosmetic change in log format. (server-handle-delete-tty, server-handle-delete-frame): Added logging. (server-handle-suspend-tty, server-quote-arg): New functions. (server-start): Install server-handle-suspend-tty. (server-process-filter): Reorganized source code for clarity. Implemented -resume, -suspend and -ignore commands. lisp/term/x-win.el (x-initialize-window-system): Don't change the binding of C-z. src/cm.c: Replaced TTY_INPUT, TTY_OUTPUT, TTY_TERMSCRIPT calls with their macro expansion. src/dispnew.c: Ditto. src/frame.c: Ditto. src/keyboard.c: Ditto. src/sysdep.c: Ditto. src/keyboard.c (tty_read_avail_input): Don't read if the terminal is suspended. src/sysdep.c (discard_tty_input, init_sys_modes, reset_sys_modes): Ditto. src/term.c (tty_set_terminal_modes, tty_reset_terminal_modes): Ditto. src/term.c (Vsuspend_tty_functions, Vresume_tty_functions): New hooks. (syms_of_term): Defvar them. (term_init): Don't allow opening a new frame on a suspended tty device. (Fsuspend_tty, Fresume_tty): New functions. (syms_of_term): Defsubr them. src/termchar.c (struct tty_display_info): Update documentation of input and output. (TTY_INPUT, TTY_OUTPUT, TTY_TERMSCRIPT): Removed. git-archimport-id: [e-mail]--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-105

--- a/README.multi-tty	Fri Feb 27 14:10:47 2004 +0000
+++ b/README.multi-tty	Sat Feb 28 01:23:39 2004 +0000
@@ -200,22 +200,50 @@
    argument-handling is done in Lisp, so this should be quite easy to
    implement.
 
-** Very strange bug: visible-bell does not work on secondary
-   terminals.  This might be something xterm (konsole) specific.
+** Make `struct display' accessible to Lisp programs.  Accessor functions:
+
+	(displayp OBJECT):  Returns t if OBJECT is a display.
+
+	(selected-display):  Returns the display object of the selected frame.
+
+	(frame-display FRAME):  Returns the display object of FRAME.
+
+	(display-frames DISPLAY):  Returns a list of frames on DISPLAY.
+
+	(display-type DISPLAY):  Returns the type of DISPLAY, as a
+		symbol.  (See `framep'.)
 
-** Find out the best way to support suspending Emacs with multiple
-   ttys.  My guess: disable it on the controlling tty, but from other
-   ttys pass it on to emacsclient somehow.  (It is (I hope) trivial to
-   extend emacsclient to handle suspend/resume.  A `kill -STOP' almost
-   works right now.)
+	(display-device DISPLAY): Returns the name of the device that
+		DISPLAY uses, as a string.  (E.g: "/dev/pts/16", or
+		":0.0")
+
+   See next issue why this is necessary.
+
+** The following needs to be supported:
 
-** Clean up the frame-local variable system.  I think it's ugly and
-   error-prone.  But maybe I just haven't yet fully understood it.
+	$ emacsclient -t
+		C-z
+	$ bg
+	$ emacsclient -t
+		(This fails now.)
+
+   The cleanest way to solve this is to allow multiple displays on the
+   same terminal device; each new emacsclient process should create
+   its own display.  As displays are currently identified by their
+   device names, this is not possible until struct display becomes
+   accessible as a Lisp-level object.
 
 ** Add an elaborate mechanism for display-local variables.  (There are
    already a few of these; search for `terminal-local' in the Elisp
    manual.)
 
+** Very strange bug: visible-bell does not work on secondary
+   terminals in xterm and konsole.  The screen does flicker a bit,
+   but it's so quick it isn't noticable.
+
+** Clean up the frame-local variable system.  I think it's ugly and
+   error-prone.  But maybe I just haven't yet fully understood it.
+
 ** Move baud_rate to struct display.
 
 ** Implement support for starting an interactive Emacs session without
@@ -667,4 +695,15 @@
    complaints seem to be caused by bugs in term.el; they are not
    related to multi-tty.)
 
+-- Find out the best way to support suspending Emacs with multiple
+   ttys.  My guess: disable it on the controlling tty, but from other
+   ttys pass it on to emacsclient somehow.  (It is (I hope) trivial to
+   extend emacsclient to handle suspend/resume.  A `kill -STOP' almost
+   works right now.)
+
+   (Done.  I needed to play with signal handling and the server
+   protocol a bit to make emacsclient behave as a normal UNIX program
+   wrt foreground/background process groups.)
+
+
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