From: "M. Schulter" <mschulter AT value DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Emacs M-! and graphics mode
Date: 12 Apr 1998 22:30:11 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

: > Simply running an automated Shell Command, rather than suspending Emacs,
: > is obviously must faster

: It is faster, but not ``much faster''.  The only speed gain is that
: you save some keystrokes to type the command line after you shell to
: DOS, and type "Exit RET" after you are done.  Using any of the
: available keyboard enhancers will make this a non-issue, IMHO.

Hello, there, and before saying anything else, I should just emphasize to
anyone who might not have seen my first post that I would _caution_ users
_not_ to try what I describe with a graphics application, unless you're
ready for a system lock-up or crash. Thank you, Eli, for giving me an idea
of what it might work with PICEM in this case.

In fact it was saving the keystrokes that I had in mind when I used the
"much faster" language. Here I was dealing with the common situation of
changing a single parameter in a PostScript illustration to position or
resize an object for example, then previewing, then editing again... 

From what you say, I'd guess that there are keyboard enhancers that could
actually automate the keystrokes to suspend Emacs, enter the batch file
name, and then exit back to Emacs. This indeed does sound like a cleaner
and more reliable solution.

Most appreciatively,

Margo Schulter
mschulter AT value DOT net