Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!dartvax!earleh From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Termcaps in Gnu Emacs Message-ID: <5493@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 16:31:40 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.5493 Posted: Thu Dec 18 16:31:40 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 05:28:17 EST References: <658@cullvax.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 11 Summary: Try this. In article <658@cullvax.UUCP>, drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes: > I would like to play with a termcap for a particular terminal. I > don't want to have to edit /etc/termcap to do this. But it seems that This is how I do it (environment: 4.3 BSD), setenv "TERMCAP" "/people1/earleh/.termcap" Then put the experimental termcap entries in the file (/people1/earleh is me) and Gnu Emacs or any other program will get the descriptions from your private termcap file, rather than from /etc/termcap.