From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TERM and shell mode Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 09:21:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83lekecnbz.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1643"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 03 08:22:08 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pXzk0-0000G2-Hu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:22:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXzjH-000197-6G; Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:21:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXzjF-00018m-De for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXzjF-0003OS-3b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:21:21 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=cPAZblD5Ye82gXQT55wK889sQP7+uLr9CUCF8S62WuU=; b=CTwmh/TyQ2nA 9YdVhHTte9kao5Yk1j1EI5r7YZsTIcqt4JMFv60bo8aeiExpXQWL0vo7KgtCqjywURhT5JYwtZS25 N2uXvef22oePNqZ4ey/zKLIJyDzz/H05JhZsOF0A09x0m0wDg5AEFl2F2Xyyj/n82+Uc8bDcpvBjS pylbvzgZD6hngCpUNDbiZa5teAPu7YQenrhHUA7/bjhZYzWSEbtHMiKNnTxG81s+jU6O7Dsmcy0/F TY6wPXKQfBVoK1ZL007c1mhsiZDHiusQNrmbMfXjAdmi1Gef4jGKgN1c8Evp3J9Icuy1efyuaQUyY G/n0H2Gn84VCxWGM4RDS0w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXzjD-0004sO-Uj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:21:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Samuel Wales on Thu, 2 Mar 2023 17:18:29 -0700) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142902 Archived-At: > From: Samuel Wales > Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 17:18:29 -0700 > > emacs -Q says dumb for TERM for shell mode. one issue with this i > have a note saying is that colored output can silently corrupt cmd | > grep if TERM=dumb. or similr. idr the details. but i recall the > problem and debugged it to the TERM variable. > > termprarily setting term to xterm fixed that problem but i have no > idea where it is being set permanntly. Did you try to change the value of comint-terminfo-terminal? Also, if you want to run programs that need colors or other features of a terminal emulator, I think you should use "M-x ansi-term" instead of "M-x shell", or at least try that to see if it solves your problems.