From 47bdd3050055afd1db8e9a4755bcd0c30d174727 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Rumney Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:55:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about change to default value of w32-use-full-screen-buffer. --- etc/NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 8e65e636839..4b80ab3f93d 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -3113,6 +3113,20 @@ MS Windows, Emacs now uses the appropriate locale coding-system, so the clipboard should work correctly for your local language without any customizations. +--- +** Running in a console window in Windows now uses the console size. + +Previous versions of Emacs erred on the side of having a usable Emacs +through telnet, even though that was inconvenient if you use Emacs in +a local console window with a scrollback buffer. The default value of +w32-use-full-screen-buffer is now nil, which favours local console +windows. Recent versions of Windows telnet also work well with this +setting. If you are using an older telnet server then Emacs detects +that the console window dimensions that are reported are not sane, and +defaults to 80x25. If you use such a telnet server regularly at a size +other than 80x25, you can still manually set +w32-use-full-screen-buffer to t. + --- ** On Mac OS, `keyboard-coding-system' changes based on the keyboard script. -- 2.39.2