Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell

["Livin Stephen Sharma" <livin.stephen@gmail.com>]

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2008/9/13 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Livin Stephen <livin.stephen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > YMMV, but I had to "export TERM=xterm"...
>
> hmm I'm probably missing something here but why exporting TERM=xterm
> would change anything since it is already if you're using a window
> manager.
>
> > - i.e. to be usable for everyday use...
>
> ah ok you're using a Mac, so that explains probably why you need to export
> TERM


Actually, without exporting TERM, I saw emacs' term to show it to be
"eterm-color":
 the need to export it was to get it to be "xterm" instead.


>
> >  (previous value in...



>
>
> yes and that should be again the case. Let see:
>
>  $ TERM=xterm emacs
>  < M-x term>
>  $ echo $TERM
>  eterm-color
>
> I don't understand how you did that.



I set TERM=xterm ***in my /home/<user>/.bashrc***
 (**not** on the command-line prior to invoking emacs).

 My only guess is that When "M-x term" starts up a shell (/bin/bash for me)
it would 'load' the .bashrc file from my home directory. Maybe that way
you'd wouldn't get "eterm-color" within M-x term. Worth a shot ?



>
> > After this change my man-pages, etc don't look like their full of odd
> > characters (especiallly when trying to print single-quotes), nor is
> > man-page text underlined randomly .
>
> did you try to start mutt for example ?


No, I don't use mutt, so I can't comment on that :) .


>
> > This TERM change definitely took care of at least issues 3/, and 5/
> > which you mention
> >  - I have both "C-r" history-search and "TAB"-completion of shell-vars
> > AND file-names working.
>
> I don't think so, I'm talking about expansion, not completion for issue 5)



Yes, I misunderstood that.

-- LSS



>
> Thanks
> --
> Francis
>

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