[Bruce Wallace : EMACS]

lwa%mit-csr at sri-unix.UUCP lwa%mit-csr at sri-unix.UUCP
Wed Oct 26 01:36:00 AEST 1983


I assume you're using Gosling's Emacs.  If so, the reason that changing
the termcap entry for the vt100 didn't affect Emacs is that Emacs doesn't
use termcap for certain terminals, including vt100's.  Instead, there
are 'terminal drivers' for these terminals.  The reason is that Emacs
does some very fancy things with scrolling regions on vt100's which
aren't adequately supported by termcap.

If you have the sources for Emacs, the file 'TrmVT100.c' is the
terminal driver.  Note also that (at least in newer versions of
Emacs) any terminal type whose name begins 'vt100' is considered to
be a vt100 for purposes of determining which terminal driver to
use (the code for this is in the file 'display.c' in the routine
'term_init()'.

Good luck.
					-Larry Allen
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