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- From: schrag@cs.utexas.edu (Robert C. Schrag)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Terminal emulators friendly to Emacs?
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 15:03:20 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Please recommend if you can a terminal emulator package for remote
- Emacs execution. I have a Turbo-XT class PC and a 9600-baud modem with
- data compression (which can reach effective rates up to 17400-baud to
- the terminal). I connect to gnu-emacs.
-
-
- -- What's the best emulator for Emacs?
-
- -- Will I need a faster PC to run it? (What processor/clock rate?)
-
-
- I have tried in the past to run Emacs under Kermit's terminal emulation
- mode on my XT-clone, with the following problems:
-
- 1) Kermit, or my XT-clone, was too slow to keep up with the high-speed
- modem.
-
- 2) Kermit did not support mappings for all of the control- and meta-
- (and control-meta-) key strokes that Emacs uses.
-
- I believe that Kermit actually maps the meta- (and control-meta-) key
- strokes into 2-byte "escape/character" sequences. I would like a
- terminal emulator that will capture and send the meta bit when I press
- the ALT key, which along with 8-bit/no-parity communication, will allow
- Emacs to interpret the high-bit as a meta modifier.
-
- Thanks for your help -- Bob
- --
- Robert C. Schrag U.S. mail:
- Department of Computer Sciences Schrag
- University of Texas at Austin 606 Park Boulevard
- schrag@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78751
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