Subject: bug#18312: PATCH: using `revert-buffer' to restart a closed telnet session.

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:50:05 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:52:11 -0400, Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> said:

    Richard> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
    Richard> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
    Richard> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

    >> The telnet protocol may be obsolete, but like many obsolete things
    >> itʼs still widely used and useful. telnet-mode is still useful to me.

    Richard> Would you like to tell us more about how it is useful?
    Richard> That will help us understand what to do.

The protocol or the mode? The protocol is still used to access old
network hardware, or terminal servers which allow connections to
serial console ports. The mode is useful because it give me an emacs
buffer where normal emacs commands work, unlike term-mode; also I
basically never need any support for VT100 escape sequences in those
buffers.

Robert