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From: DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: VT100s and Emaxes
Message-ID: <825@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 11:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 11:20:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 02:13:29 EDT
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  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