Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!gatech!bbn!gateway!PIZZA.BBN.COM!jr From: jr@PIZZA.BBN.COM (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Terminal width for emacs Message-ID: <307.590857128@pizza> Date: 21 Sep 88 14:58:48 GMT References: <4790@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: jr@bbn.com Organization: BBN news/mail gateway Lines: 10 > 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 jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr