From: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Terminal is not fully functional: from Shell of Emacs
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:20:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4aba8308$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h9djk3$5s2$1@amma.irisa.fr>
July wrote:
>
>
> Apparently, shell has some worry with man, esp. i don't like shell
> because under shell, if you tape, "echo $Term" it gives
> TERM = dumb,
>
> if I understand well, dumb means stupid in English, so shell is actually
> laught at the user...
"Dumb" here means that the terminal does not support cursor-movement
commands. These allow the program running in the shell to draw
characters at arbitrary locations on the screen, and is used to
create TUI interfaces, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_user_interface.
HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-23 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-23 15:53 Terminal is not fully functional: from Shell of Emacs July
2009-09-23 16:16 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-09-23 16:50 ` July
2009-09-23 20:20 ` Colin S. Miller [this message]
2009-09-24 8:44 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-09-24 10:07 ` Tim X
2009-09-24 16:25 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-09-25 21:57 ` jpkotta
2009-09-23 18:33 ` despen
2009-09-24 9:55 ` Tim X
2009-09-24 11:12 ` Andreas Politz
2009-09-26 15:16 ` Sean Sieger
2009-09-26 16:10 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.7407.1253790784.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-21 12:33 ` yrdeboer
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