From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Terminal is not fully functional: from Shell of Emacs Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:55:17 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87iqf87jlm.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253789013 22754 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2009 10:43:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:43:33 +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 Sep 24 12:43:27 2009 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 1Mqlmv-00042U-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:43:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mqlmv-0001pd-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:43:01 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tDsL8kiq5rbUZ7LmJ1/Fd3VAYEg= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: f7c39c8b.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=f]O428REKC; RI=Qc=OLNJ2L?0kYOcDh@:\LfROTNE>L0R8J33anb9@?L?:=ZL5GW@8BAbk>4D2WN= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173316 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:68434 Archived-At: July writes: > Hello, > > I have some trouble with the Terminal from Emacs, when I try do simply > man ls, > > The shell of Emacs gives me, > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > > This is quite disturbing. Anyone knows how to get out of this warning plz? > If you are talking about shell-mode, your partially out of luck. Shell mode is a simple command line shell that lacks the full functionality of a normal terminal shell - its more a 'dum' terminal and does not support things like ANSI escape characters that are used to do terminal I/O for programs such as those based on curses etc.. Essentially, it is the wrong tool. You can try M-x term and you will get a more ansi equivalent terminal. However, for browsing man pages, you are much better off using either M-x man or M-x woman. If M-x term still doesn't work, check out the emacs references. There is a terminfo file provided in the /etc directory of the emacs distribution whihc you can setup on your system to get full terminal support. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au