22 Mar
2017
22 Mar
'17
1:05 p.m.
On 22 March 2017 at 02:02, Warren Toomey via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Which raises the question, are there any _good_ VT100
terminal
emulators, especially for Linux? For any other platforms?
xterm never gives me any problems. But the default terminal emulators
of Gnome or KDE have some issues in my experience. xterm is always
buried in the system somewhere though, and it works. I use it e.g. for
accessing my old minicomputer which has a VT100 setting.
22 Mar
22 Mar
1:23 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Tor Arntsen via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
xterm never gives me any problems. But the default
terminal emulators
of Gnome or KDE have some issues in my experience...
Somewhere around 2004, I was setting up klh10. I found that xterm did
not allow me to run emacs successfully. I had dumb terminals on hand,
so I plugged a vt420 into my serial port, ran a getty, logged in, ran
klh10 from there and emacs loved it.
I'm following this thread because I too want a decent terminal
emulator that works with a variety of vintage text editors (that seems
to be the torture test) but for Linux or OS X. Putty seems to be a
repeat suggestion but it's not for my platforms.
-ethan
1:33 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I must confess I did not attempt VT52 mode with Emacs. In another
world, I did find that the VT220 implementation of VT52 mode was not
kind to the VTEDIT TECO macro on OS/8 (I ended up with a real VT52 so
I "solved" that problem).
-ethan
Somewhere around 2004, I was setting up klh10. I
found that xterm did
not allow me to run emacs successfully.
I have successfullyl run xterm in VT52 mode with ITS Emacs. 
1:47 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:23:52AM -0400, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
Putty seems to be a
repeat suggestion but it's not for my platforms.
PuTTY interprets ESC [?7l in a weirdly wrong way -- instead of disabling
autowrap (which is already a half-documented feature that's implemented
differently on the VT100, VT101, and VT102, likely by accident), it makes
autowrap work in a different, incorrect way. Editors trip over that since
they can't be afraid to use column 80.
John Wilson
D Bit
10 p.m.
On 3/22/2017 9:23 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
I'm following this thread because I too want a
decent terminal
emulator that works with a variety of vintage text editors (that seems
to be the torture test) but for Linux or OS X. Putty seems to be a
repeat suggestion but it's not for my platforms.
-ethan
On OS X 10.9 and 10.11 I've had pretty good results from a terminal emulator called
Zoc from Em-Tec <https://www.emtec.com/zoc/index.html> It's a guy in Germany
and he has a couple products, but I think ZOC is his main thing. It runs on both Windows
and OS X. It's not free ($79.99) but, for me it was better than anything else. I
tried the current Ericon products for the Mac, and they aren't free either and are a
considerable bit more expensive and WAY slower. ZOC is pretty fast. I also used
ITerm/iTerm2 but neither of them could do serial ports. ZOC can talk to systems using
many protocols, serial included.
The author is good at communication and willing to discuss problems and fixes. I talked
to him initially about some of the keyboard mapping and he was very good about it.
For Linux I've always heard use xterm (Mac, too but I didn't want to run X windows
if I didn't have to).
John H. Reinhardt
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