From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Emacs and VMS
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.343
Posted: Wed Dec 15 05:39:15 1982
Received: Fri Dec 17 01:50:47 1982

>From coar.umass@UDel-Relay  Mon Dec 13 03:49:04 1982
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Emacs requires an 'environment variable' (logical name, on VMS)
called TERM. It uses this to figure out what escape sequences
to use for your terminal.

Do a 

	$ DEFINE TERM "vt100"

(note the quotes and lowercase) if you have a VT100, &c. Look
in TERMCAP for a definition for your terminal, and define TERM
to be that name (the second field in the definition, I think).

Some of the terminal drivers are hardwired into Emacs; the VT100
and Infoton (Ann Arbor [sp?] too, I think) are among these. All
this means is that changing the TERMCAP entry for such terminals
won't affect Emacs, since it has the sequences hard-coded.

Good luck!

	ken
	coar@umass (CSnet)