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From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Wanted: minimal EMACS in C
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Date: 28 Mar 89 21:06:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: daveb@gonzo.UUCP's message of 26 Mar 89 23:31:43 GMT



In article <618@gonzo.UUCP> daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>In article <1307@dukeac.UUCP> bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd) writes:
>>Here's what I'd really love to see in an emacs(3):
>>
>>	char *emacs(buff, fp, rows, cols, gotoxy)
>Since you aren't providing a TERM, and it's already going to have to do
>fileno(fp) games to set the tty modes, then you don't need to provide
>rows and cols.  What is the gotoxy function supposed to do?  My god, are
>you saying that the screen output primitives are 'position cursor' and
>'write chars?'  Eek!

Having the "emacs" function grab the whole screen might not be what
you want. Some application might have an emacs in some part of the
screen, with other info displayed at the same time. Hence "rows" and
"cols". A position (x,y) would also be needed.

/Lars
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Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci., University of Aalborg
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