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Aucbvax.4236 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people Mon Oct 5 15:35:56 1981 Last forwarded message >From sklower Mon Oct 5 15:35:43 1981 Mail-from: ARPANET site MIT-MULTICS rcvd at 2-Oct-81 1243-PDT Date: 2 October 1981 12:49 edt From: York.Multics at MIT-Multics (William M. York) Subject: integrated video management To: editor-people at SU-SCORE cc: Margulies at MIT-Multics

Bernie's comments about the non-integration of Emacs with the rest of the Multics system are well taken. However, we are attempting to address these issues with a new integrated video management system for Multics. Basically, all functions of terminal control, input and output, and even screen window management are handled by the video system. Other programs such as the command processor and the editor (Emacs) will or already do use this system to get their work done.

The result so far has been a great increase in functionality and compatability of input processing in Multics subsystems. All calls to the I/O system to read a line invoke the same line editor. All programs managing windows on the screen are managing t

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