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: shell not allocating tty on OS X Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:38:02 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <86y8n6hyh1.fsf@rumba.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 1086183689 10889 80.91.224.253 (2 Jun 2004 13:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 02 15:41:21 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 1BVVzc-0006Ti-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVVzu-0001uC-Jj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVVzT-0001lW-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVVzQ-0001ju-Vz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVVzQ-0001jo-Rt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVVz3-0006tA-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVVz2-00038R-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from 139.4.37.213 ([139.4.37.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by 139.4.37.213 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:40:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BMcyr12d3dAUa9aIl74uUHg0qNU= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:18880 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18880 Replace 'spam' with 'gnu' to send me email writes: > I'm using the Carbon build of Emacs from > http://mindlube.com/download/files/emacs-osx-10-25-03.dmg, and I'm having > a bunch of problems with the shell. I think that all of them can be > traced to the fact that unlike other builds of emacs I've used, this one > doesn't allocate a tty to the shell. On MacOS, process-connection-type defaults to nil for some reason or other. I think if you set it to t, then this behavior will change. But since there was a reason for setting process-connection-type to nil, expect breakage elsewhere if you do this. Kai