DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (06/13/84)
The degree of desirability of ANSI terminals (including the VT100/101/180) varies directly with the language your emacs is written in. TECO and (compiled) lisp seem to make it easy to design in support for different types of terminals, C and mocklisp make it hard. Why? Because ANSI terminals are *different* from the usual run of the mill ADM-3a, and you have to have one for a while to appreciate how they intended the more difficult things to be done. I suspect later versions of termcap/curses/terminfo handle ANSI terminals better than the first ones... --dave