Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:44:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
cc: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>,
        Seth Copen Goldstein <seth AT goldstein DOT pc DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs & windows 95 & newbie questions
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On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> >Try `M-x mode4350'. I don't know if there's a way to adjust it more than
> >that, but when you get info working, see the node of the Emacs docs entitled
> >"Display on MS-DOS".
> 
> Yes there is, but is sort of a hack, requires one knows the modes of its
> video card specifically. Also I don't know if it will work in forthcoming
> versions (Eli can you enlight on this?).

I don't think anybody will ever take that code out of Emacs.  Why should 
they?  And AFAIK, it will always work with any SVGA, since it just calls 
the BIOS function which sets the video mode, with the number of the mode 
supplied by the user.  What can possibly go wrong here?

BTW, the SVGA-specific modes have one annoying problem: the mouse driver 
seems not to be notified about the dimensions change, and so the mouse 
pointer begins to behave erratically when you enter one of the 
non-standard modes.  Does anybody know how should I tell the driver that 
the dimensions have changed?  (Initializing the mouse after the change 
doesn't help: Emacs already does that.)

> Anyway, I recomend the original poster "gets his/her hands" on Emacs with
> mode4350 first, before higher resolutions be attempted.

I concur.  I always work in 50-line mode, and have yet to see a case 
where that isn't enough.  (Most X-Windows fonts won't allow you to 
display that much without requiring glasses.)