Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Re: MacTerminal Message-ID: <1476@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 16:26:16 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1476 Posted: Wed Aug 15 16:26:16 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:56:57 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 10 From: olson@harvard.ARPA (Eric Olson) VT100s do insert and delete line by defining a scrolling region on the screen and either scrolling up or down (example: region 10 to 24; scroll down results in open line at 10 and lost line at bottom). On UNIX, termcap (terminal capabilities stuff) can have an entry for VT100-like scrolling regions (a subset of an ANSI standard) and editors may choose to use them. Insert character and delete character can be done with a line rewrite, which is slow but not too annoying at 1200 baud.