rtidd@ccels3.mitre.org (Randy C. Tidd w33 x6499) (02/19/90)
I compiled emacs on my 386/ix system, and it seems to run OK except the terminal emulation is screwey. The default terminal type (AT386) has problems with the full-screen mode; scrolling problems and other miscellaneous characters appearing hither and thither. Notably, splitting the screen wrecks a lot of havoc. I have tried running it under vt100 emulation and also ansi, and they all have different problems, and none of them are right. I don't think the problem is in my /etc/termcap, since other full-screen programs (i.e. vi) run ok in AT386, vt100 or ansi. I tried using or not using tset <terminal> and/or set term=<terminal>, but that doesn't seem to matter. Does emacs have to know something special about my terminal to work properly? Does it ignore /etc/termcap and use its own termcap file? Does someone have a termcap entry that will work properly (I have one for my sun called sun-emacs which fixes some silly scrolling problems)? Please reply through e-mail; I don't subscribe to comp.emacs nor gnu.emacs and wouldn't see a message if you posted there. Thanks!