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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Insert character (TERMCAP) in emacs...
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 02:52:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 02:52:41 1985
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How does emacs (Gosling) handle insertion of text?  It doesn't seem
to take advantage of my terminal's ability to do character-insert,
instead insisting on "repainting" the entire line from the cursor to
EOL, which takes bloody forever at 1200 baud.  Since text-insert mode
is sort of the default condition with emacs, I'd think it would be
able to handle this.  I haven't been able to get it to believe my
TERMCAP that my terminal has character insert, though.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Glenn Reid
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