Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!silver!templon
From: templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Need Help with GNU Emacs, VT131, and VMS (!)
Summary: Problems with control-s, undefined terminal
Keywords: termcap, emacs, control, vms
Message-ID: <3425@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 89 11:58:37 GMT
Reply-To: templon@silver.UUCP (jeffrey templon)
Distribution: comp.emacs, comp.os.vms
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
Lines: 33


	What a hairball!  OK, I have looked in the TERMS. file, in the
VMSXXX files, and the manual.  I tried looking in the termcap file - hence
the word, "hairball."

	The editor - GNU Emacs 18.52.  Vax/VMS 4.6.  I have two problems:
first is that there is no termcap entry for a VT131.  Can someone send me
one?  I have *no* desire to learn how to do this if someone else already has.

Second problem: I got around (temporarily) this problem by setting the VT131
to VT100 (i.e. SET TERM/VT100).  This allows me to use the emacs, but whenever
the screen scrolls, I get this horrible mess in the minibuffer:

Failing I-search:^S^S^S^Q-

Once I got    Failing regexp I-search: OB^S^Q-   this was when the scroll
resulted in the end-of-text moving onto the screen.  I have searched through
the VMS SET TERM docs and have seen some stuff about the system sending
c-s and c-q to regulate flow control, but i didn't understand it.  I should
point out that the terminal line runs through a GANDALF multiplexer before
getting to the terminal, I don't know if that does anything with control chars.

Final problem (yeah, I know I only said two): I can't get control-S!  VMS
uses control-s to tell the process "stop sending data, you ugly beast."  So
when I type c-x c-s, emacs just sits there forever, waiting for me to type
control-q so it can send data again.

Someone must have dealt with this already.... help!  I should note in closing
that when I use emacs using my mac running versaterm thru a modem and a
LATserver to the VAX, I don't have this failing I-search mung.  I still
have the control-S problem though.

						jt