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- From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2?
- Keywords: pmcomm te2 comms (TE/2 vt100 emulation)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.230816.15222@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 03:08:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Aug29.230816.15222
- References: <1992Aug29.004905.8158@actrix.gen.nz> <92Aug29.145122edt.12046@roll.db.toronto.edu> <n1fn-v=.genie@netcom.com>
- Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS
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- In article <n1fn-v=.genie@netcom.com> genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:
- >In article <92Aug29.145122edt.12046@roll.db.toronto.edu> panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos) writes:
- >>Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>
- >>Strange. vt100 emulation is critical for me, too. I login to UNIX systems
- >>and "vi" is my text editor. I tried TE/2 but abandonded it very shortly
- >>since when running "vi" in a TE/2 session, even hopping from one word
- >>to the next (with the vi command 'w') erases the previous word.
- >>One gets tired of hitting ctl-L continually. There were also some other
- >>problems with the vt100 emulation that I've noted down somewhere but
- >>don't remember off the top of my head.
- >>
- >
- >I've had the same experience with TE/2. The vt100 terminal emulation
- >is not good. I use the jove text editor and pressing keystrokes like
- >CNTRL-F (move the cursor to the right one space) will erase the
- >previous character on my screen. And I too end up pressing
- >CNTRL-L many times to get the screen to refresh correctly. This
- >is particularly bad when programming since I find it necessary
- >to see what's been typed before.
-
- The current release of TE/2 no longer has this problem. I was one of those
- who reported it to Brady Flowers, and he had it fixed within a week. (It's
- a matter of vt100 using tabs to position the cursor.) The problem will go
- away, even with the old version, if you do 'stty -tabs' before using your
- editor.
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