LUKEN@LEHIIBM1.BITNET ("Kenneth R. van Wyk") (07/20/87)
Is anyone else out there running GNU EMACS on VMS? I just installed it on our 8530 under VMS 4.5 and I seem to be having some minor problems with the supplied TERMCAP definition. We're using KERMIT 2.29b which emulates a VT-102... First of all, I had to add a VT-102 definition into the TERMCAP.DAT file - I just put it in with VT100-80 and it seems to work reasonably well. The first problem is that GNU EMACS doesn't even attempt to load the TERM/VT102.EL file when run, despite what the documentation says. In fact, even if the terminal type is VT100, it doesn't load the same VT100.EL file. According to the docs, the STARTUP.EL file should look for the appropriate terminal dependent file and load it, if it exists, from the TERM subdir of the LISP dir. Nothing. The second "problem" is speed related. Our DEC-20, under TOPS-20 V6, updates the screen in EMACS much quicker on a VT-100 or VT-102 than does GNU EMACS. Also, screen scrolling in EMACS on the DEC-20 is done by way of VT-100 escape codes for deleting lines, etc. and happens MUCH quicker than on the VAX. This, I would think, is due to the TERMCAP definition that we're using. Does anyone have any experience with either or both of these problems? Any help would be very much appreciated! Please reply to me directly. Kenneth R. van Wyk Lehigh University Computing Center <LUKEN@LEHIIBM1>