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From: shirono@hcx3.SSD.HARRIS.COM
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Subject: Re: running vi inside GNU emacs vs. ftp
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Date: 15 May 89 15:01:00 GMT
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**>  comp.emacs  dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL  May 10, 1989  <**
> But the real problem is that one would like to be able to run an
> arbitrary screen-oriented program while telnet'ed inside emacs.
> Running vi is just one of many possibilities.
>
> The terminal-emulator is close to a real solution, but isn't very
> clean.  Does anyone have a real vt100 emulator?

Some time ago I started thinking about something similar.  I decided that
it would be nice if GNU Emacs had an ANSI X3.64 terminal emulator.  I
looked at terminal.el long and hard.  I analyzed what it took to do things.
I decided against it, basically because it seemed to me it would take an
inordinate amount of time to process ANSI X3.64 escape sequences.

The correct solution would be to create a terminfo entry for the GNU Emacs
terminal emulator.  This need not be as hard as it sounds.  If you are
lucky, somewhere you might have a termcap to terminfo conversion package.
If so, stuff your emulator termcap entry (should be in environment variable
TERMCAP) in a file and run your conversion package.  If you have access to
no such tool, then I'm afraid you'll have to create the entry by hand.

In case you might have a problem in stuffing new terminfo entries in the
system-wide files, I believe it is standard procedure for individual users
to be able to specify alternate paths for terminal definition entries.  It
is probably the environment variable TERMINFO.

--Roberto
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