From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37564: [PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in term to fix ncurses applications Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:51:16 -0400 Message-ID: <9ipnjdemzv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87y2y5lfnb.fsf@1e0.co.uk> <83eezxatsv.fsf@gnu.org> <87tv8slb6w.fsf@mattleach.net> <83a7aka1q5.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgocfh8c.fsf@mattleach.net> <83y2y48f8u.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8z0few1.fsf@mattleach.net> <83sgob98zk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="152641"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Matthew Leach , 37564@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 03 19:52:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5Gs-000dZp-Cr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:52:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39008 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5Gr-0001ed-97 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5Gl-0001eT-LO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5Gk-0007uK-Pa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60510) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5Gk-0007tc-MS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5Gk-0004UZ-J3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:52:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37564 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 37564-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37564.157012508717217 (code B ref 37564); Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37564) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Oct 2019 17:51:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41098 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5GB-0004Td-2p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56749) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5G9-0004TQ-1O for 37564@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:51:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5G3-0006yc-GD; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iG5G1-0006jC-0o; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:51:17 -0400 X-Spook: Interstate 2600 dedicated denial of service Closure Foot X-Ran: L2}yP(H|HJwj^)]I-X%OGt]r`Es`8o8ZzVMmhm#My (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:28:15 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168263 Archived-At: I think the point is that no terminal emulator / shell combination actually exports LINES and COLUMNS as environment variables, except for Emacs term.el. So no application can be relying on the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables (since there aren't any applications specifically for use inside Emacs's term). So term.el should stop setting them, since it actually causes problems.