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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: GNU emacs on Esix Rev D console
Keywords: ESIX, EMACS, terminfo
Message-ID: <21916@grebyn.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 04:17:34 GMT
References: <15217@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <15217@shlump.nac.dec.com> grebus@nobozo.enet.dec.com () writes:
>Has anyone else seen a problem with GNU EMACS 18.55 running on the ESIX
>console?  It appears
>that terminfo or the AT386-M terminal description is broken.   Symptoms
>are the mode line
>is preceeded by a couple garbage characters instead of being in reverse
>video.    Also,  going
>from two windows fails to erase the old mode line and leaves a stray "S"
>on the screen.

	The termcap for AT386 includes the 'xt' capability.  This
is supposed to mean that tabs are destructive (which for the console they
are), but GNU-Emacs also interprets it to mean that the terminal is a
specific one (Teleray something-or-other) with other quirks and oddities,
and changes some of it's behavoir, which includes using the wrong
'standout' string.  I made my own changes to Emacs to correct this but I
don't have them handy. You can look in term.c for references to Teleray;
I just #if 0'ed them out.  Of course, then it probably won't work right
with Teleray terminals...
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