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From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Defence against a VT100 Maculator slur...
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Date: 1 Jul 88 10:21:49 GMT
References: <914@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> <46100170@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <3601@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
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In article <3601@csvax.liv.ac.uk> sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk writes:
>In article <46100170@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>I am new to this mac world.  I downloaded the VT100 emulator posted
>>on this net a while ago and I tried it at home.  It seemed no problem
>>until I ran emacs.  My screen was completely garbaged after I started
>>the emacs.
>
>I assume you are talking about my terminal emulator ("VT100 Maculator") -
>you don't mention any names though...! I must confess to have never used
>emacs (although I have played with a variant called 'Jove' which was pretty
>awful). It all depends on what escape sequences emacs sends - try switching
>the Control Chars option to 'Visible' (at least that's what I think I called
>it) and noting down the sequences sent when you enter emacs. You could always
>e-mail me a list of them and I will investigate...

Dunno, sounds plausible to me.  Jove breaks uw's vt100 emulation, but not 
Red Ryder's or dumb virtues.  Recompiling without 'insert' set improves
things, I think, but lines still get left after they should be deleted.
This doesn't necessarily apply to yours, of course; I can't test it, as I
have a Mac II.

From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
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