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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Andrew Kurn <kurn@sfu.ca>
Cc: 5379@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5379: emacs wont start
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:39:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my0fjp9j.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100114204941.GA7498@sfu.ca>

> Emacs won't start with TERM=xterm-color.
>
> -----
> emacs: Terminal type xterm-color is not defined.
> If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, [. . .]
> -----
>
> However, it *will* start with TERM=xterm
>
> This contradicts the doc, which says that the type is stripped, one
> hyphen at a time, until it finds a name it recognizes (and therefore
> it should come to xterm and start).
>
> Sorry if this one has been fixed.  It appears that it might be OK
> in 22.3, but I haven't been able to find it in the bug list.

Hi Andrew, more recent versions of Emacs handle this properly now.
Thanks for the bug report, though.






      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-15 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-14 20:49 bug#5379: emacs wont start Andrew Kurn
2010-01-14 23:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-01-15 16:39 ` Chong Yidong [this message]

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