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From: jr@PIZZA.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Terminal width for emacs
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Date: 21 Sep 88 14:58:48 GMT
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> If you want to automatically switch to 132 columns whenever you run Emacs,
> I suggest making a script that outputs the escape sequence, sets $TERM,
> runs emacs, and restores the screen size.

It is sufficient to set $TERM to, say, vt100-w, run emacs, then fix
$TERM and run tset (or whatever) to reset the terminal.  But the
original poster did say "while in emacs".

/jr
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