From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "No access to tty" when using tcsh and M-x Shell Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:27:03 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <86vffuzzfs.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091896259 28870 80.91.224.253 (7 Aug 2004 16:30:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 16:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 07 18:30:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BtU5s-0002aF-00 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:30:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BtU9W-0006pF-Ua for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BtU9P-0006pA-Hl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BtU9O-0006oy-1a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BtU9N-0006ov-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BtU5c-0007iH-Tr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BtU5c-0005we-00 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: from pd951f681.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.81.246.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by pd951f681.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:30:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f681.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mY9WZ1Q1GxKOaXkfjTIbavW2YWg= 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20021 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20021 Matt Ronge writes: > Emacs seems to have a problem with the tcsh shell on my Mac OS X 10.4.3 > computers. Whenever I do M-x shell I get this error message: > > Warning: no access to tty (Bad file descriptor). > Thus no job control in this shell. > exit > > Process shell finished Try setting process-connection-type to t. The default value of this variable on MacOS is nil for some reason, so by setting the variable to t you might experience other problems. But I don't use Macs, so I wouldn't know which problems to expect. Kai