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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Redisplay on Suns
Message-ID: <1698@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 11:02:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 11:02:59 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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Most Emacs termcap drivers do not use scrolling regions, probably
because the `cs' termcap entry was not precisely defined until
recently.

One *very* nice solution to the `Sun redisplay problem' is to have
a special Sun driver that knows whether it is connected to a bitmap,
and if so, uses BitBlt code to write characters directly.  This
also lets one use the mouse and detect window size changes when
running under Suntools.

I sent my Sun driver for my version of Gosling Emacs #264 to
UniPress; it has all of these features and seems to work quite well
for us.  Hopefully UniPress will soon be distributing that version.

Maryland hacks: ask for them by name.  :-)
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