2008/9/13 Francis Moreau
<francis.moro@gmail.com>
Hello,
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Livin Stephen <livin.stephen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> YMMV, but I had to "export TERM=xterm"...
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...
ah ok you're using a Mac, so that explains probably why you need to export TERM
Actually, without exporting TERM, I saw emacs' term to show it to be "eterm-color":
the need to export it was to get it to be "xterm" instead.
> (previous value in...
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.
I set TERM=xterm ***in my /home/<user>/.bashrc***
(**not** on the command-line prior to invoking emacs).
My only guess is that When "M-x term" starts up a shell (/bin/bash for me) it would 'load' the .bashrc file from my home directory. Maybe that way you'd wouldn't get "eterm-color" within M-x term. Worth a shot ?
> 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 ?
No, I don't use mutt, so I can't comment on that :) .
> 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)
Yes, I misunderstood that.
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Thanks
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Francis