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.
prev 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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