Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bu-cs!att!cbnewsh!ho5cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: how come vt100? (was Re: running vi inside GNU emacs vs. ftp-find-file) Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 15:49:08 GMT References: <39714@bbn.COM> <860007@hpcljms.HP.COM> Sender: nntp@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Distribution: comp Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 > > The terminal-emulator is close to a real solution, but isn't very > > clean. Does anyone have a real vt100 emulator? When I see questions like this, I always wonder what folks really want: 1. Do you want a vt100 emulator because you go to non-UNIX systems that aren't flexible on terminal types (nothing like termcap/ terminfo)? 2. Do you just want the terminal emulator to be something recognized by the UNIX system you're on? (Not likely that most people have termcaps for the emulator's codes, but they can be built readily.) 3. Or are you really finding things that the terminal emulator doesn't do correctly, even after you set up a terminfo or termcap entry? I wonder this because I've tried running "vi" inside the terminal emulator (on a SUN3/SunOS 4.0) just to see if it would work. No problems, but I don't know how to do much in "vi" (the help key is ":q!", right? :-). I also once ran GNUemacs inside a terminal emulator inside a GNUemacs inside a terminal emulator inside a GNUemacs (three deep). Although I was starting to lose track of my place in the time-space continuum, I didn't see the emulator making any mistakes. So, what's the real question? Why do you want vt100 emulation? -- -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill