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>From coar.umass@UDel-Relay Mon Dec 13 03:49:04 1982
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Emacs requires an 'environment variable' (logical name, on VMS)
called TERM. It uses this to figure out what escape sequences
to use for your terminal.
Do a
$ DEFINE TERM "vt100"
(note the quotes and lowercase) if you have a VT100, &c. Look
in TERMCAP for a definition for your terminal, and define TERM
to be that name (the second field in the definition, I think).
Some of the terminal drivers are hardwired into Emacs; the VT100
and Infoton (Ann Arbor [sp?] too, I think) are among these. All
this means is that changing the TERMCAP entry for such terminals
won't affect Emacs, since it has the sequences hard-coded.
Good luck!
ken
coar@umass (CSnet)info-vax (12/18/82)
>From chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay Thu Dec 16 04:59:23 1982
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Yes, Emacs has lots of terminal types coded directly in it:
Ann Arbor Ambas: original driver had problems at >4800 baud; not enough
padding
VT100: pretty reasonable, actually
TEK4025: Didn't work at all for us, but we have a funny command
char.
Concept 100: (Don't have any)
MiniBee: (Don't have any)
Generic: Bug that caused bomb for terminals with no I/D line
capability.
Anyway, I hacked over the drivers we had and sent the results back
to Gosling, so maybe all the bugs have been fixed.
We also have additional drivers for the BBN BitGraph and the DEC Gigi.
(There may be a few more internally recognized types but I can't
remember them at the moment.)
NOTE: The names you use for the terminals determines whether or not
Emacs will use its special driver. For some terminals (e.g. VT100)
the special driver has MUCH better performance than the generic.