Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!rich
From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Writing Terminal Drivers for Gnu Emacs
Message-ID: <12246@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 89 19:44:37 GMT
Reply-To: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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     Emacs is an extremely powerful, flexable, and more-or-less
     standard user interface. I've witnessed its remarkable evolution
from an experimental editor written in teco (and/or pdp-10 assembly
language) on a DEC-20, to the present-day gnuemacs.  As a blind
hacker, I feel its time to demand my rights as a member of this
community:  [* I want the power of EMACS at my fingertips as soon as
possible!!! *].

     I remember that the DEC-20 Emacs came with a "dumb" terminal
     driver.  From the little experience I had with it, I recall it
to be fairly useful, although clumsy in some ways.  My
question/proposal to the net is that this driver be defined for
GNUEMACS.  In fact, I'll build it and test it, but I'll need help
from an Emacs wizard to get started.  Any takers?  Any
comments/questions?  Does anyone care at all!!? :-)

     Please respond to me directly (or cc to me if you wish to post
     your reply to the net).  My adcress is "rich@eddie.mit.edu".
-- 
						-- Rich (rich@eddie.mit.edu).
	The circle is open, but unbroken.
	Merry meet, merry part,
	and merry meet again.