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- * Define a sentinel function, so that the display doesn't get
- screwed up the default sentinel when the process finishes.
-
- * Performance improvements? (It is zippy enough on reasonably
- fast machines, though.)
-
- * Should more terminal escape sequences be supported?
- Yes: At least the ANSI color escapes (as in colour_xterm).
-
- * The caching variables (e.g. term-current-row) assume that there
- is be no random editing of the buffer that we don't know about. In that
- respect, they are somewhat fragile.
-
- * Document the internals better, and make it easier to write
- emulators for other kinds of terminals.
-
- * The scrolling behavior is still not quite right.
-
- * Stallman has expressed dislike for the xterm style of switching to the
- alternate buffer on the "ti" capability. An alternative would be to
- defer this until the screen is cleared. That assumes there are programs
- that emit ti without following that by a command to erase the window.
- I'm not sure there are any such programs (that we care about) ...
-
- *** CHANGES THAT REQUIRE NEW EMACS PRIMITIVES ***
-
- * If ioctl is made accessible to elisp, it may be possible
- to support some kind of automatic switching between char mode
- and line mode. It also becomes possible to privide term
- primitives to turn off echoing in the inferior.
-
- *** CHANGES TO DO IN OTHER PROGRAMS ***
-
- * In gdb-mode, a keysequence like \C-c\C-s works by sending the command
- "step" in gdb-mode. Emacs goes to a fair bit of trouble to delete the
- prompt preceding the command, as well as the echo from the inferior.
- In addition to being hairy, it is somewhat fragile (because of possible
- type-ahead, and because the inferior might be mixing other output with
- the echo).
- More robust would be for emacs to send the command "noecho step" (or
- "step #noecho") where the "noecho" is an instruction to gdb (readline)
- to erase the prompt for this command, and suppress its echo.
-
- * Bash (and perhaps other shells) should be modified so that before
- the prompt (and PROMPT_COMMAND) are printed, they emit:
- printf("\032/%s\n", PWD);
- This will tell the shell window which directory it should assume,
- and obviates the need for all that hairy directory tracking.
-