> why not run emacs the way it has been run in exactly those sorts of situations for almost 50 years? Remotely, via shell? You know what? This project is doing

> why not run emacs the way it has been run in exactly those sorts of situations for almost 50 years? Remotely, via shell? You know what? This project is doing exactly that; using Emacs remotely, via a terminal (not a shell BTW, shell is just a name for some specific language’s interpreter, that is good at launching sub processes). It’s using the gotty[0] library, which is an implementation of the tty[1] in the browser. It’s a natural extension; ttys have been ported for a few decades, starting from teleprinters[2] to text terminals[3] and terminal emulators[4]. [0] https://github.com/yudai/gotty https://github.com/yudai/gotty [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_terminal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_terminal [4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator