echan@deepthot.UUCP (Eddie CHan) (02/02/88)
I am a new user of Emacs. I am frustrated by the flow control problem in Emacs. People have been telling me this and that how to set the terminal. But sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Does anyone know what is the ultimate solution to the flow control problem in Emacs and what causes it? Second question: Is there any difference between GNU and Gosling's Emacs? Can the lisp program written for GNU be ported to Gosling's (or vice versa)? Your pointer directions is very much appreciated. Edwin T. Chan
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (02/05/88)
There is a lot of difference between GNU and Gosling (I'm not going to make points about one being better than the other, but they're different). There are helper routines to help you go from one to the other, but it is mostly for things like key bindings and the difference in scrolling action. The lisps are completely different. As a matter of fact, the Gosling's emacs in various revisions are pretty different. The pre-Unipress Gosling v264 is nothing like the latest Unipress version (2.15). Even older Unipress V2.10 is fairly different from their latest version. There is a compatibility package that tries to help you convert from older Gosling version mlisp to the current version but it is not 100% foolproof (actually it is not even 50% foolproof). -Ron