From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (getenv "TERM") always returns "dumb"
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:24:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1C3HnC-00047G-6a@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86656xox9d.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> (message from Kai Grossjohann on Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:06:38 +0200)
Most processes started from within Emacs do not talk to a smart
terminal, but they believe they do.
Why do they believe they do? Is it because the Lisp code that starts
them does not specify "dumb" as the terminal type?
If so, the straightforward solution is to change the Lisp code
that invokes them.
It may seem inelegant, but at least it doesn't cause any problems.
So I have reverted the change.
A side remark: Emacs running in a window system appears to inherit the
terminal type from the terminal it was started from. That is, this
Emacs has (getenv "TERM") => "linux" because it was started from
~/.xinitrc, but an Emacs started from an xterm will have (getenv
"TERM") => "xterm". But in both cases, M-x shell RET provides the
same terminal capabilities.
Yes, and M-x shell (through comint) sets TERM to `dumb' or `emacs'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-03 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-31 0:21 (getenv "TERM) always returns "dumb" Peter Heslin
2004-08-31 9:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-31 13:35 ` Stefan
2004-08-31 19:57 ` Peter Heslin
2004-08-31 20:11 ` (getenv "TERM") " Davis Herring
2004-09-01 19:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-02 9:06 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-09-03 17:24 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-09-03 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-03 22:34 ` Juri Linkov
2004-09-04 22:12 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-06 16:09 ` Stefan
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