Re: RFE: debugging in separate window

Moin Joerg-Cyril Hoehle,

> To have *DEBUG-IO* and *ERROR-OUTPUT* point to separate console windows (thus 
> keeping your standard console window clean from error messages) you can use:
>        (SETQ *ERROR-OUTPUT*
>          (SETQ *DEBUG-IO*
>            (OPEN "CON:0/0/500/300/CLISP-Debugger/AUTO/CLOSE"
>                    :DIRECTION :IO)))

> I don't know if people on UNIX/PC realize the power and usefulness of this.
> I wish I could use this idiom on UNIX or MS-Windows too, not just the Amiga.

  The simplest way would be to open "/dev/tty" - this pseudo device is
  always pointing to the controling tty of a process.

  Unix/Linux/BSD supports pty/ttyp pairs to implement virtual lines
  for xterms and other toys. The idea behind that is, that one process
  can read/write into one side of the pair, and the other process would
  have the other side. This is used for xterm, at example.

  So clisp would just need to open a pty, and start minicom or cu
  on the other end of the ttyp pair.

Bye Michael
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