MacTerminal, Emacs, and Dec 20s

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Subject: MacTerminal, Emacs, and Dec 20s
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 22:22:07 EST
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From: Carl Weir


I just recently purchased a Macintosh along with MacTerminal and an
Apple 1200. Since I am writing a thesis, I had hoped to get a lot of
use out of the Mac as a terminal emulator, working in Emacs on a Dec
20. However, I haven't been very happy with the performance of
MacTerminal when doing Emacs; often certain command sequences cause
flakey things to happen. For example, on occasion I will do a series
of control-Bs and then begin to insert text only to find that the text
doesn't appear on the screen (blank spaces will, though). Also,
garbage will sometimes be inserted at the beginning of the paragraph I
am working in. This is not the only problem I have encountered. On
occasion I will issue a series of commands--I haven't discovered which
series is responsible yet--and the font being displayed on the screen
will change.

I assume that changes to MacTerminal will improve its performance when
using Emacs on a Dec 20; does anyone know if the people working on
MacTerminal are aware of these problems and are trying do something
about them? What do people with pre-release copies of MacTerminal
version 1.2 think?

Sorry if I've covered exactly the same ground as other messages about
MacTerminal.

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