Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:3696 comp.emacs:3757 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihlpa!ihnp4!ihlpf!warren From: warren@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Montgomery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.emacs Subject: Re: Bell Labs emacs Summary: Answers to questions raised about Bell Labs emacs Keywords: 3B1 mouse-support Message-ID: <5196@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 4 Jul 88 17:23:31 GMT References: <14112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 29 This is a response to jim Gottlieb's questions, which I could not get through via mail. Hit n unless you are really interested. There is a newer version, but it won't help your problem that much. My emacs can actually be compiled to use termcap, terminfo, or the internal distribution system. In the early days of the unix/pc, my own was the only one I could count on being there, so that's the way it is built for THE STORE. As I look at the description for the unix/pc console, the problem I see is that it doesn't have capabilities for insert or delete line. I don't know if this is just my bad descriptor or something else. If these are present, it will do a reverse scroll by doing line inserts and deletes, which is somewhat better looking that a complete redraw. I never bothered to use a full screen reverse scroll, because there are few terminals that will do that but won't do insert/delete, and insert/delete usually works out better in the long run because it preserves the status lines on the bottom of the screen. If you want to experiment with the terminal descriptions, run emacs and edit the files in ~EMACS/terminals (~EMACS expands correctly only inside of emacs). The one for the console is probably ~EMACS/terminals/s4, but I'm not sure. It's whatever your $TERM is set to. If you find documentation that suggests that you can selectively add or delete lines, you can add those capabilities by setting "al=" or "dl=" in the file. Let me know if you get something to work. -- Warren Montgomery ihlpf!warren