[net.emacs] Having problems using Gosling's emac

andree@uokvax.UUCP (11/03/83)

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uokvax!andree    Nov  1 09:09:00 1983

Hmmm. I wonder if this could be related to the fact that Gosling ignored
any information in termcap on whether or not the terminal had the magic
cookie glitch (and how bad it was). I ran into this on a teleray 10, where
Emacs inserted extra spaces in the mode line.

When I asked Gosling about it, he said that he had ignored magic cookie
problems so as to discourage people from buying brain-damaged terminals.

	*sigh*
	<mike

ell@linus.UUCP (Edward L. Lafferty) (11/11/83)

I have a mod to Gosling's emacs for a Teleray T1061 (magic cookie
glitch) which does the best it can to give you at least a highlighted
mode line. If anyone is interested I can send it.

P.S. It ain't perfect. Sometimes it seems to forget where it's at. May
be a function of the redisplay algorithm.

thomas%UTAH-GR%utah-cs@sri-unix.UUCP (11/12/83)

From:  thomas%UTAH-GR@utah-cs (Spencer W. Thomas)

There is a Teleray (T10) driver available which could probably be easily
modified to support other terminals with the magic cookie problem.

=Spencer