From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:22:24 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87iqt0w7zz.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <64cc3cde-69bb-4afc-b874-2ee37c302976@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221308630 28333 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2008 12:23:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:23:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 14:24:46 2008 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 1KeUBC-0006qz-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:24:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeUAC-00086j-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeU9n-00084b-RW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeU9m-00082W-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46190 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeU9m-00082T-AM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37800 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 1KeU9m-0005Z5-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KeU9i-0006Pq-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:23:14 +0000 Original-Received: from e178017190.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.17.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:23:14 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178017190.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:23:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178017190.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ddGbT5jYLXbTUOWvyAmwAhqM8RM= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:57525 Archived-At: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Livin Stephen wrote: > I too found M-x term to initially fall terribly short - but not > anymore :) > > YMMV, but I had to "export TERM=xterm" in my ~/.bashrc to make M-x > term work as per expectations... > - i.e. to be usable for everyday use: on my Mac I'm perfectly happy > with it's behaviour now! You should install the terminfo stuff from /etc/e. The emacs term for sure is different from an xterm. David