From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xdisaster Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:13:34 +0200 Message-ID: <867isij9ht.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <87r6qq73uv.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176365748 19708 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2007 08:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:15:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 12 10:15:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HbuSz-0005uT-TI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:15:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HbuX7-00024s-Dx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:19:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HbuWk-00024j-EI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HbuWi-00024X-VW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HbuWi-00024U-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:19:32 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HbuSY-0000Q9-8K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HbuSM-0006WX-IG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net ([62.191.185.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hgpegcy6jewBQeUwEuXoKzilkAc= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:42605 Archived-At: David has explained what to do, I would like to explain why Emacs behaves like this. After M-x shell RET you are NOT in a terminal-like buffer. (Use M-x term RET for that.) The advantage of a *shell* buffer is that you can move around in it using the normal Emacs motion commands, you can copy text from it, you can edit the text in it, and so on. Besides the options mentioned by David, another one is to set the environment variable $PAGER to cat. Then the complete man page will be printed into the *shell* buffer, for your perusal using normal Emacs motion commands. In your shell init files you can examine the environment variable $TERM to see whether you are in shell-mode in Emacs, if you would like to set $PAGER differently for this case. Kai Sean Sieger writes: > I run Emacs 23.0.0.1 in an xterm on Ubuntu 6.10. I was just now > reading X manpages in M-x shell (for the first time) trying to figure > out why CVS AUCTeX doesn't see TeX Live 2007, but now I get: > > matilda@bdfpj71:~$ man man > Reformatting man(1), please wait... > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > - (press RETURN) > > Um, I want to twist this notebook of mine into four pieces (I've been > stuggling with this X problem for a week), what gives??