Re: zterm emulation problems

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From: rudolph
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 15:57

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/* Written 12:37 pm  Jul 13, 1989 by dplatt@coherent.com in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
In article <23@bernoulli.stanford.edu> dudevoir@bernoulli.stanford.edu (Glen P. Dudevoir) writes:
> I have tried out both versions 0.75 and 0.8 of Zterm and have found
> some problems in the vt100 emulation. Neither version will handle
> editing in vi or gnuemacs.  0.75 scrolls the entire screen after 
> a cr in the command line (bottom line of terminal) and then fails
> to redraw the screen so the cursor positioning is not correct.
> In version 0.8 moving the cursor to the left in the editors causes the
> characters that it is passing over to be erased from the screen, but
> not from the file being edited.
>
I had the same problems with 0.7 and 0.75, and kept my copy of MacKermit
handy for doing GNUmacs editing on our Sun.  These scrolling-problems
were eliminated in 0.8.

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I still found 0.8 completely unusable for vi.

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