From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Emacs only provides a dumb TERM
Date: 20 Aug 2004 18:40:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvn00p8mcr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zn7m996g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> It has happened several times that processes run by Emacs use funny control
> sequences thinking they are run in an xterm or some such. This has been
> fixed in some packages such as compile.el by explicitly setting TERM to
> "dumb" before running the underlying process.
> A while back I had suggested to do that globally since it never makes any
> sense for a subprocess to use the TERM setting that Emacs received (since
> subprocesses never have direct access to the terminal in which Emacs is
> running, if any).
> At that time I'd been told that it was probably a good idea but that we
> should wait for a better time to make the change.
> I think now is a good time for that.
> So I suggest the patch below.
Installed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-01 23:07 Emacs only provides a dumb TERM Stefan Monnier
2004-06-01 23:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-02 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-20 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-08-27 21:08 ` Andreas Schwab
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