From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5379: emacs wont start Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:18:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20100114204941.GA7498@sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263512976 1046 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2010 23:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5379@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andrew Kurn Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 00:49:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVZRN-0006lG-7Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:49:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVZRO-0002rt-9c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVZRL-0002re-05 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVZRG-0002pQ-MO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55444 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVZRG-0002pG-CX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56474) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVZRF-000096-Un for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NVYyw-0008Rw-LN; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:20:02 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andreas Schwab Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5379 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5379-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5379.126351114632448 (code B ref 5379); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5379) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jan 2010 23:19:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NVYy1-0008RI-Ci for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NVYxz-0008Qe-01 for 5379@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25FC1C155BD; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:18:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (DSL01.83.171.157.218.ip-pool.NEFkom.net [83.171.157.218]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78F5901F5; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:18:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7AA06CA297; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:18:57 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I pretend I'm living in a styrofoam packing crate, high in th' SWISS ALPS, still unable to accept th' idea of TOUCH-TONE DIALING!! In-Reply-To: <20100114204941.GA7498@sfu.ca> (Andrew Kurn's message of "Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:49:41 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.6 (----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -3.9 (---) Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:20:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:34338 Archived-At: Andrew Kurn writes: > 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). That's only related to how the terminal-specific initialization file is found under term. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."