Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU Emacs Message-ID:Date: 1 Dec 88 16:58:46 GMT References: <828@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <28173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <10960@bigtex.cactus.org> <8791@wright.mips.COM> <1138@csuchico.EDU> <32918@bbn.COM> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Followup-To: comp.emacs Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 36 In-reply-to: jr@bbn.com's message of 1 Dec 88 14:53:52 GMT >>and had a terminal-emulator with a complete termcap that >>other editors could use then maybe. >Now why would you want to use any other editor? :-) Well not all machines have emacs for one. But try this. M-X terminal-emulator (return when you it asks if you want /bin/csh) vi [run vi in the terminal emulator] [gee it works!] me [run me in the terminal emulator] [emacs complains of incomplete termcap entry] emacs [run emacs in the terminal emulator] [it works but is SLOW] [now rlogin into another favorite computer that has emacs] emacs [run emacs in the terminal emulator but on another machine] [says emacs-virtual undefined] setenv TERMCAP ... [goback and steal the $TEMRCAP the the above emacs had] [Doesn't seem to work] Now if you could put an entry in /etc/termcap say emacs-virtual that was complete then maybe we would have something. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------