schultz@NRL-AIC.ARPA (Alan Schultz) (04/26/88)
I just aquired an Ann Arbor Guru and am having trouble with Gnu Emacs. This is a BSD4.3 system here, and it looks like it might be a padding problem. In particular, on startup with an existing file, either the content of the file is not visible, or not situated properly in the window. Hitting Control-L a few times SOMETIMES corrects the window. Anyone been through this before who is willing to give me a fix. I really like using a 60 line screen with Emacs. Also, I am using the aaa-60 termcap entry. Alan C. Schultz Code 5510 Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCAR A I) Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C. 20375-5000 ARPA: schultz@nrl-aic.arpa (202) 767-2877
hunt@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Brian Hunt) (05/04/88)
In article <8804261252.AA01912@nrl-aic.arpa> schultz@NRL-AIC.ARPA (Alan Schultz) writes: >I just aquired an Ann Arbor Guru and am having trouble with Gnu Emacs. >This is a BSD4.3 system here, and it looks like it might be a padding problem. >In particular, on startup with an existing file, either the content of >the file is not visible, or not situated properly in the window. Hitting >Control-L a few times SOMETIMES corrects the window. Anyone been through >this before who is willing to give me a fix. I really like using a 60 >line screen with Emacs. Also, I am using the aaa-60 termcap entry. It does look like a padding problem. Our termcap entry for aaa-60 is defined in terms of the entry for aaa-unk, which includes the following field: :cl=156\E[H\E[J: Thus 156 milliseconds of padding is used when the screen is cleared; my guess is that this amount was figured on a 30 line display. Doubling the amount of padding makes emacs behave a lot better. I think the most elegant solution would be to make the padding proportional to the number of lines affected, e.g. change this field in the aaa-unk entry to something like :cl=6*\E[H\E[J: (Anyone close to the source of these termcap entries listening?) Brian Hunt Dept. of Mathematics Stanford University