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[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Vincent Ladeuil writes:

 > Eerk ! Am I right in inferring from the above that the input
 > handling will be character based ?
 > 
 > This implies that it can't be used under emacs where input is
 > line buffered (i.e. you can't read a character at a time, only a
 > '\n' terminated line).

Surely that's not true; both XEmacs and GNU Emacs support full-screen
terminal emulators, as well as the line-oriented shell modes.

I'm pretty sure you can just use comint as the basis of such modes
(but I haven't written one myself).