Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: re: Xon/Xoff in Emacs Message-ID: <9527@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 01:43:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9527 Posted: Thu Aug 1 01:43:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 01:18:57 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 20 From: Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA That sounds a little extreme. I've never seen a terminal that can delete several lines off a screen without some padding, although I'm sure there are some. Other complex functions like deleting or inserting characters usually take a lot of time, too. Are there actually terminals that can do all of their functions without getting a little padding? My experience has been that the more sophisticated the hardware, the more they make it do for the user, so the likelyhood of having to pad remains about the same. Did anyone answer the original question? This guy has a stupid terminal (needless to say, since it's a DEC terminal) which has a feature (^S and ^Q are terminal functions, not characters to be transmitted) that he's trying to get around. I think his choice is probably between Emacs and some other editor, not between terminals. Can't a Emacs wizard tell him how to move ^S and ^Q? There must be a way. CC: *Hobbit* , info-vax@sri-kl.arpa