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From: ericksen@unc.UUCP (Jim Ericksen)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: 79-character screen
Message-ID: <128@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 21:19:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 21:19:45 1985
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> 
> When using Gosling's emacs, i notice that column 80 never gets used.  When
> i have long lines, the last character displayed is in column 78, and column
> 79 has the '\' or '$' in it. 
> 
> Does anyone know why?

If your terminal has the automatic margin feature ('am:' termcap entry) it
normally moves the cursor to the beginning of the next line after printing
in column 80.  Gosling emacs apparently is unable to deal with this behavior,
and so sidesteps the problem by never printing anything in column 80.
-- 
Jim Ericksen
UNC Chapel Hill


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