Re: support for tty frames from windowed emacs session

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Anthony R. Cassandra" <arc@cassandra.org>
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:37:44 -0600
> 
>   "Note that creating a frame on a tty (via "gnuclient -nw ...") does
>    not work.  GNU Emacs doesn't support this functionality."
> 
> Is the README accurate in its statement?

Yes, AFAIK.

> Myself and some others would really like this functionality, and I
> want to see if it is worth exploring trying to make it happen.

Please do.  IMHO, this is an important feature that needs motivated
individuals willing to sit down and code it.

> Are there major technical problems, philosophical problems or is it
> simply as matter of having the appropriate man-power for a lower
> priority feature?

The latter, I think.  But I don't think this is regarded as lower
priority; it's just that the available resources are so scarce that
even important features are not worked on.

I suggest to move the rest of this discussion to emacs-devel@gnu.org.

TIA