Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: smooth scrolling Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 89 03:20:06 GMT References: <8908041447.AA03238@romano.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 25 In-reply-to: dave@CS.WISC.EDU's message of 4 Aug 89 14:47:28 GMT In article <8908041447.AA03238@romano.cs.wisc.edu> dave@CS.WISC.EDU (Dave Cohrs) writes: > When running under X11, emacs doesn't calculate > costs for anything, so it thinks that scrolling is infinitely fast, or > some such stupid thing ... Doesn't appear to me something you would "fix" with a entry in some TERMCAP-alike database. It looks like a bug to me. > As Dale Worley pointed out, there needs to be a TERMCAP equivalent for > window systems ... Good grief - No! TermCap was fine to handle all sorts of terminal ideosyncracies. My hope is to get rid of this with X. > Doesn't anyone else out there use emacs under X? Yep, I'm experimenting with it. Currently, I doesn't recognize all of my keys (like Shift/Fxxx on a LK201 keyboard), and sometimes the process "disappears" (without warning, sign nor coredump). But I like the mouse support. -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{mcvax,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------