williamm@tramp.Colorado.EDU (WILLIAMS MICHAEL SCOTT) (02/13/88)
Awhile ago I sent out a help message regarding improper communication between AEPro and EMACS on a VAX (running VMS by the way). Here is a summary of what I have done, for those who might run into similar problems later, or whatever: > >1) When accepting a "clear screen/home" from the VAX, my Apple does so, > but loses the first two characters following the instruction. With Sean Kamath's help, that one was figured out for the most part. I modified my EMACS termcaps file such that one (or two, I forget) nulls were put in after the ^]H^]J clear screen command. The only problem I ran into on this was that Emacs uses \200 for a null, as opposed to \000; but that was eventually remembered from obscure readings of the past. Emacs is now fixed (next part as well...), but on the VAX/VMS system, I cannot find the system logical to have my own SYSTEM TERMCAPS modified the same. Sooo, for now, the system Clear-Screens do not work, but EMACS does, and that will do much better than before.. >2) Within EMACS, the right-arrow (chr$(12)?) isn't interepreted properly, > although the left-,up-, and down-arrows are (or perhaps everywhere in > the system, but I only use it in the editor) Regarding this little problem, I logged onto a system that I knew had a "transparent" mode, showing all control characters which passed through it. It turned out that each arrow was not sending the vt52 version of the arrow (^]A,..) but the "normal" arrow characters (^H,^J,..) EXCEPT the right arrow, which was sending a ^U. First of all, its nice to know that AEPro's VT52 was written with such careful emulation ;-), but that it wasn't even done properly - although I have found that somewhere in the installation of it I can change that problem. Temporarily (until I can find the AEPro modification) I have established an EMACS /START_FILE which rebinds ^U ( "bind-to-key" "next-character" 21). Thanks Sean for the help, -Remo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ..{nbires,hao,seismo,ihnp4}!boulder!tramp!williamm BIT: WILLIAMS@COLORADO.EDU SNAIL: 2905 E Aurora Ave #129, Boulder CO 80303