From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Terminal only emacs question Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 04:32:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87sgb6y49y.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <20200924220106.way5eue2tmykuhgy.ref@Ergus> <20200924220106.way5eue2tmykuhgy@Ergus> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15826"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IpQhv5IsS0+7C3CePQ0UQCoHFEU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 04:33:43 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kLdYL-0003yP-Gr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 04:33:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59040 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLdYK-0003MK-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLdXn-0003Ks-Sx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:39596 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLdXm-0006Ys-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kLdXi-0003Iq-Vx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 04:33:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/24 21:22:11 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124179 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I tried getenv but for some reason inside emacs it >> is always "dumb". > > I don't think that's right. Try it again, but this > time, be careful to call this `getenv` early (i.e. > before the end of your `.emacs`). What does it mean to use `getenv'? With TERM, i.e. (getenv "TERM") ? If so, then: dumb In the shell, using tmux: screen, both in the Linux VTs and xterm. In the Linux VTs, w/o tmux: linux -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal