From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "harry meyers" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Interactive programs and dumb terminals (emacs shell) Date: 12 Jul 2006 09:34:18 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1152722058.128170.143380@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152722565 31983 80.91.229.2 (12 Jul 2006 16:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 12 18:42:42 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 1G0hli-0007Uq-Fo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0hli-0001oq-1w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:40:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.191.29.100 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1152722063 929 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2006 16:34:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:34:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.191.29.100; posting-account=I30K0Q0AAABNbMHNxg3aE0UsnX5wNzh2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140297 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35922 Archived-At: john maclean schrieb: > Hey Chaps, > > I've been using M-x shell recently and getting the hang of the > difference between this shell and say /bin/bash. > > My question is in the cases where one installs a program (via say > apt-get -y install foo) which then prompts you for some configuration > settings. The emacs shell is a "dumb terminal" as I understand it and > interactive programs that use ncurses > won't work. Install latex, tetex or xorg and you'll get asked system > settings like your resolution, paper size etc. > > How can I over come this? ( Hope that this is all clear). You can use M-x term which activates /bin/bash by default. harry