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- From: mdb@cisco.com (Mark D Baushke)
- Subject: Re: getting emacs to use region scroll
- Message-ID: <9301051717.AA01448@regal.cisco.com>
- Sender: mdb@cisco.com
- Organization: cisco Systems Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USA
- References: mdb@cisco.com (Mark D Baushke)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:17:44 GMT
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- On Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:57:41 GMT, pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard) said:
-
- phil> I believe my problem is that the termcap entries do not include
- phil> any specification of region scrolling. Somehow I need to fix
- phil> that (but this is going to be difficult because I am a mere
- phil> user, not the sysadmin, on this machine, and UNIX seems to be
- phil> designed to be customized only by sysadmins). I've scrounged
- phil> /etc/termcap for any suitable alternates, but none are to be
- phil> found. Eventually I hope to hack together a way to create my
- phil> own termcaps and somehow get those to be used in lieu of
- phil> /etc/termcap.
-
- phil> IN THE MEAN TIME, is there any work around in GNU EMACS to force
- phil> it to do region scrolling ANYWAY, despite the termcap being in
- phil> error? This is the substantial problem I have right now.
-
- you do not indicate the version of gnu emacs or the hardware or
- operating system of your machine. however, i will assume a recent
- version of gnu emacs running on sun hardware and sunos 4.1.x.
-
- i will further assume that you use /bin/csh as your shell.
-
- copy the termcap definitions for your favorite terminals into your own
- $HOME/termcap hack on them and then 'setenv TERMCAP $HOME/termcap'
- (bourne and bash shell users should use the command
- 'TERMCAP=$HOME/termcap;export TERMCAP')
-
- if you don't have sufficient diskspace for your own termcap, you may
- be able to use the one in the emacs etc directory.
-
- while in emacs look at the variable exec-path for an ".../etc" entry
- that might be something like /usr/local/emacs/etc look to see if
- the file /usr/local/emacs/etc/termcap (or whatever the path is)
- exists. if it does, then exit emacs, do a
-
- setenv TERMCAP /usr/local/emacs/etc/termcap
-
- and restart emacs to see if the scroll regions work for you.
-
- good luck,
- -- mark
- mdb@cisco.com
-