From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing the echo area Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:35:39 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150299485 22568 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 15:38:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 17:38:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXR9-0002O7-FE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:37:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXR9-0002yQ-0E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXQw-0002xE-Gn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXQv-0002wj-Ul for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXQv-0002wc-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqXa7-000268-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:47:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXQd-0002Fn-Qd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:37:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:37:11 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:37:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: 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:35467 Archived-At: Jason Grieves wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I am currently > operating a piece of software in emacs that requires the entire screen, > i.e. the number of rows. In other words, because emacs takes the top > and bottom rows of the tty, the software will no longer load. We can > trick the software into thinking it loads but sadly the words get all > jumbled up. > > We have found a way to remove the menu bar, but is there any way to > remove the echo area as well? Do you mean you are running your program from Emacs via `M-x term'? That should set up the terminal so that your program can query the terminal configuration and display properly. -- Kevin