From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Francis Moreau" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:00:16 +0200 Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0809130200r31712e8ejddc81fd2a89144d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <64cc3cde-69bb-4afc-b874-2ee37c302976@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221296448 32393 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2008 09:00:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Livin Stephen" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 11:01:44 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 1KeR0i-0003Db-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:01:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQzi-0002WZ-3a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQzN-0002WO-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQzL-0002W3-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40936 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQzL-0002Vu-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:13773) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KeQzK-0000Ac-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z36so256228uge.17 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:00:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Y73wLkC029ghrm9NXS/dY7jY5hgTIKMe/ur41AiMRDo=; b=jTatU81fP3h5XZXSAMWY0LJO9E7iTUdQG89W7ZaoUiCwbGZ/Xl6pXVJN8kqzv+5AQG /Z9Y3X/e3f7kR6D9oVr2O8t8alwFXIygQJWK7afDNDgIhRb3muHd1yCjdtks/NtHC6dL CDPWQ3pkj245GsbWHlwBFbaPcokqg1S1SJCC0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=NUGsEs13YMT+kNDvpCGXkW13W/shYEeCReI10uE7jc2L1QHpG3AZWct8hFmUOF8wxH 2eB4qw+jBtRG4NueoXQZ2wqFMeTK/XARP27LoZB1D4IH0OnuCA7BBMhZWJyK6vIWUKrh AKi0/fc7zC96Jac+S2yTNoAl0oPMZakLdSjM0= Original-Received: by 10.67.94.10 with SMTP id w10mr461648ugl.41.1221296416551; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.67.22.17 with HTTP; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:00:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <64cc3cde-69bb-4afc-b874-2ee37c302976@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:57518 Archived-At: Hello, On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Livin Stephen wrote: > > YMMV, but I had to "export TERM=xterm" in my ~/.bashrc to make M-x > term work as per expectations... hmm I'm probably missing something here but why exporting TERM=xterm would change anything since it is already if you're using a window manager. > - i.e. to be usable for everyday use: on my Mac I'm perfectly happy > with it's behaviour now! ah ok you're using a Mac, so that explains probably why you need to export TERM > (previous value in M-x term term used to show $TERM to be eterm-color > or something like that) > yes and that should be again the case. Let see: $ TERM=xterm emacs < M-x term> $ echo $TERM eterm-color I don't understand how you did that. > After this change my man-pages, etc don't look like their full of odd > characters (especiallly when trying to print single-quotes), nor is > man-page text underlined randomly . did you try to start mutt for example ? > This TERM change definitely took care of at least issues 3/, and 5/ > which you mention > - I have both "C-r" history-search and "TAB"-completion of shell-vars > AND file-names working. I don't think so, I'm talking about expansion, not completion for issue 5) Thanks -- Francis