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From: peck@SUN.COM.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Terminal setup for Emacs on Sun-3 Workstations (re-mailed)
Message-ID: <8702111834.AA04171@denali.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 12:51:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 12:51:19 1987
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First,  in your (suntools) .defaults file, include the line:
/Tty/Retained	"Yes"
Then the terminal emulator can do text moves using bitblt, instead of repaint.

If that's not enough speed for you then you can also
tell unix/emacs that the sun terminal supports multi-line scrolling.
add this patch to your /etc/termcap file:

*** /etc/termcap.~1~    Mon Sep 15 12:34:23 1986
- --- /etc/termcap        Mon Feb  9 17:34:08 1987
***************
*** 32,39 ****
- --- 32,40 ----
  Mu|sun|Sun Microsystems Workstation console:\
        :am:bs:km:mi:ms:pt:li#34:co#80:cl=^L:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\
        :ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:rs=\E[s:\
        :al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:im=:ei=:ic=\E[@:dc=\E[P:\
+       :AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:IC=\E[%d@:DC=\E[%dP:\
        :up=\E[A:nd=\E[C:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kr=\E[C:kl=\E[D:\
        :k1=\E[224z:k2=\E[225z:k3=\E[226z:k4=\E[227z:k5=\E[228z:\
        :k6=\E[229z:k7=\E[230z:k8=\E[231z:k9=\E[232z:
  M-|sun-nic|sune|Sun Microsystems Workstation console without insert character:\


If you don't have the program "patch", just add the line:
        :AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:IC=\E[%d@:DC=\E[%dP:\