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In article <b62mfs+.kaminski@netcom.com> kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
writes: 

   >Is there any way I can get Emacs to scroll a block of text up on my
   >screen instead of redrawing all of it?  I mean, is there some
   >parameter I can set in my .emacs file that would fix this?  I'm using
   >a vt100, so I *thought* this kind of thing would be handled
   >automatically... maybe it's a bad termcap entry?

It is my guess that you have your baudrate set incorrectly.  If you are coming
through a network, stty -a will most likely show that the baudrate is 38400.
Emacs checks the baudrate and determines how to draw the screen based on this.
For 38000 baud it is very cheap just to spit out the text rather than
calculate the best way to do it.  I suggest that you do:

  stty 1200
  emacs

i.e., set the baudrate to 1200 (try 1200, not 2400 for optimal results) then
run emacs.  Of course this assumes unix (for VMS: set term/speed = 1200).

It also could be that your vt100 termcap is wrong. Any good vt100 emulator
should support scrolling regions since a vt100 does.

Also, one poster replied that the problem is that emacs is stupid and
suggested an alternative (JOVE).  This is a ridiculous statement and should be
ignored.  I doubt that the display algorithms in JOVE are as good as those in
emacs.
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