Re: asynchronous process problem

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>BTW in Emacs you can choose between pipes and ptys - ispell.el uses pipes
>by default. Are ptys better than pipes?

ptys are more sophisticated than simple pipes because the pty driver
implements the semantics of a terminal.  For example, try executing
"stty -a" in a pipe.  FWIW, 0.99-17 has a function called
open_process_pipe which will force jed to use a pipe rather than a pty
for async processes.

--John

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