gnu (12/28/82)
presby!aron asked if Emacs' terminal drivers are automatically used based on the TERM environment variable. The answer is yes. Each terminal driver parses the TERM variable to see if it's acceptable; for example the Concept 100 driver we have will take C100, c100, c108, C108, c100xxxx, etc. If no driver recognizes the TERM value, the Termcap driver searches /etc/termcap for it. For users on non-paged systems, I modified Emacs with a configuration option to delete all the terminal drivers except the Termcap driver. I don't know if James will include this in his next release. John Gilmore, Sun Microsystems