[net.emacs] version 2.0 of Gosling/Unipress Emacs

hucka@utah-cs.UUCP (Michael Hucka) (03/26/85)

	We have recently received release 2.0 of Unipress Emacs here
at the University of Utah.  I am interested in hearing of other people's
experiences with this new version.  Have you encountered any bugs or
problems?  Do you have any suggestions pertaining to installing/running
this version?  Do you have special praises for any of its features?
Anything at all is appreciated; I'm sure both Unipress and the users of
its Emacs would enjoy learning of early experiences with this release.


	Mike Hucka
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ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) (04/09/85)

From Michael Hucka:
>
>	We have recently received release 2.0 of Unipress Emacs here
>at the University of Utah.  I am interested in hearing of other people's
>experiences with this new version.  Have you encountered any bugs or
>problems?  Do you have any suggestions pertaining to installing/running
>this version?  Do you have special praises for any of its features?
>Anything at all is appreciated; I'm sure both Unipress and the users of
>its Emacs would enjoy learning of early experiences with this release.

    I'm still fighting with the terminal driver code. Apparently, nobody at
    UniPress has Ambassador terminals -- otherwise why would the released
    driver code screw up the terminal setup bits so frightfully?  Whenever I
    terminate or suspend Gosmacs, I can only type characters with even (or
    is it odd?) parity.

    New logic was added to force a total redraw of the screen if over two
    lines are to be deleted when > 9600 BAUD for ALL terminals!!

    Can somebody at UniPress justify this pointless castration of Gosling's
    display optimization? Believe it or not, that code works fairly well,
    provided effort is spent getting the parameters right!

    I'll be glad to post our near-total rewrite of the Ambassador display
    code when its ready, provided there's interest. 

    BTW, my frustration with Gosmacs comes from the fact that I like
    it so much. Sorry for the flames. 

-michael