Re: tty debocle

Keith Runyon <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:20:21 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.windows
Message-ID <CAMy9gSqi1YWwHJqH=oktdbb6FovtwR5_tpBtAU8D_gSOacCmEA@mail.gmail.com>
because i use docker
docker requires stdin,stdout to be tty

this means I cannot
- interact with docker containers on windows through emacs
- run programs to remote into docker containers like docker-tramp
- open docker files on the container or service

pretty big deal for devops with docker

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:13 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> > From: Keith Runyon <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:10:17 -0600
> > Cc: [email protected]
> >
> > OS=windows
> > emacs version =27.1
> >
> > Need: to be able to open a *shell* and run the following command
> >   > tty.exe
> >
> > Here is what currently happens when i do this.
> > c:\Users\MyName>tty
> > tty
> > not a tty
>
> This might change in the future when Emacs is taught to use the
> Windows 10 PTY devices.  It doesn't know how to do that yet.
>
> But why do you need this on MS-Windows in the *shell* buffers?
>


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Keith L. Runyon Jr.
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