From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "john maclean" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Interactive programs and dumb terminals (emacs shell) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:12:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4170c1720607120912n15836f41if27f328ebceb25ee@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152720892 25541 80.91.229.2 (12 Jul 2006 16:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 12 18:14:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0hME-0000u5-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:14:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0hMD-0003Au-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0hKA-000264-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0hK8-00024H-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0hK8-000245-D9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.236] (helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0hLh-0001Ym-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i22so231240wra for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:12:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=EjQItjDR35B3gkMHXnAOIyL2YQaYFub+1WoSXhp+5unetjye3Iu6zJR22ZOmpteW1z1WWKyC4832XYHlpNuCzlgJ4tG+jM3/BNo5tBTUTgbr+lVAV+wW64XP+mGqqgb4Q+MvRV8Vqkq41tObT52nFPvmaoXIm8PyR14B+jEODkg= Original-Received: by 10.82.109.9 with SMTP id h9mr118400buc; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.128.17 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:12:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35920 Archived-At: Hey Chaps, I've been using M-x shell recently and getting the hang of the difference between this shell and say /bin/bash. My question is in the cases where one installs a program (via say apt-get -y install foo) which then prompts you for some configuration settings. The emacs shell is a "dumb terminal" as I understand it and interactive programs that use ncurses won't work. Install latex, tetex or xorg and you'll get asked system settings like your resolution, paper size etc. How can I over come this? ( Hope that this is all clear). -- John Maclean - 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC)