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From: prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: VT100 emulations and EMACS
Message-ID: <POSTNEWS24781@NADC.ARPA>
Date: 25 Oct 89 15:08:35 GMT
Sender: prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle)
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Note: no C64/C128 VT100 emulation that in any way requires flow control (and
as far as I know, they all do) to allow screen updates to keep up with the
baud rate used (1200 and up) will work properly with EMACS *unless*:

EMACS is configured to do 2 things it doesn't normally do:

1) Run with host flow control enabled (for UNIX implementations
this requires some magical incantation which puts the tty
driver into CBREAK (vs. RAW) mode).

2) Avoid the characters ^S and ^Q as editing commands (this
requires binding these commands to some other key sequence
and unbinding ^S and ^Q from any commands).

EMACS was originally written to work *only* with terminals which required no
flow control at all. Since C64 terminals do, these considerations must be made
for it to work properly. Hope this answers the rash of EMACS/C64 queries that
have come up lately.
Sincerely,
Frank Prindle
Prindle@NADC.arpa