bash desire: Forking attached shells

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From: greg
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:13

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I very frequently create new shells attached to windows or Emacs
buffers.  These shells are generally started up from scratch.  I would
much prefer to simply fork an existing shell, both for speed reasons
and so that I don't lose the context I've gotten used to.  If bash is
given appropriate features for this (I'm imagining a command that
would take the new terminal device for the child process), then Emacs
can be easily made to take advantage of it, and a similar feature can
be put in xterm, mterm, etc. so that they fork along with the shell.

Comments?

_Greg


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