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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Vnews Bug (solution)
Message-ID: <8175@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 06:12:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 28 06:12:14 1984
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If your terminal *does* do auto-wrap, you should have ":am:" in your
termcap.  If it doesn't auto-wrap, you should not have that in there.
If you have the ``eats newline'' glitch/feature (where after writing in
the last column the cursor stays there and if it gets a newline goes to
the beginning of the next line, or if it gets a char it also goes to
the beginning of the next line (then prints the char)) then you should
have ":am:" and ":xn:".

(Then there are pathological terminals where the auto-wrap is set
either by a switch or at random on power on, but can't be interrogated
or changed from software...  lots of fun.)

If your termcap has this and Emacs still misbehaves, you have a broken
Emacs.  (Mine sets tt.t_width = tgetnum("co")-tgetflag("am"), which
works, though it can be annoying to lose that last column.)
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