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From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: Gnu emacs 19.28
Organization: private FreeBSD site
Message-ID: <D1xEwo.73H@luva.lb.bawue.de>
References: <3eem5m$3bj@Mercury.mcs.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 09:41:12 GMT
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In article <3eem5m$3bj@Mercury.mcs.com>,
Christopher Hilton <chilton@MCS.COM> wrote:
>Has anyone ported Gnu Emacs 19.28? If so are you having problems with
>it? I got a copy from prep.ai.mit.edu and it compiled straight out of
>the box but it has trouble with syscons console driver in FBSD 2.0.
>Specifically it seems to have trouble going to the first column on the

I experience this same behaviour with emacs-19.27 and emacs-18.58
and [n]vi.

>display when it goes to erase the minibuffer. Interestingly this
>problem only appears when I set TERM=cons25 so I think that the
>TERMCAP entry for cons25 my be hosed. If this is the case I can fix it
>but I need to know how to recompile the termcap.db file from my
>modified termcap file.

If you find a solution, please post it...

Thanks,

-- 
Michael Giegerich                              migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de