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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net>
Cc: 37564@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37564: [PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in term to fix ncurses applications
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:01:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eezxatsv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2y5lfnb.fsf@1e0.co.uk> (message from Matthew Leach on Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:59:04 +0100)

> From: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:59:04 +0100
> 
> The attached patch removes the exporting of the LINES and COLUMNS
> environment variables in term-mode.  Exporting these variables causes
> issues for ncurses applications.  For example, when running:
> 
> emacs -Q
> M-x term
> <ret> (to select /bin/bash)
> htop (to run htop)
> 
> and resizing the window (especially making it smaller) can make the
> program impossible to read.

Thanks, but I don't think we can make this change unconditionally,
because not all applications that heed LINES and COLUMNS use ncurses.
I wonder if we can do better than just providing a defcustom.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-30 19:59 bug#37564: [PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in term to fix ncurses applications Matthew Leach
2019-10-01  6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-01 15:47   ` Matthew Leach
2019-10-01 16:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 18:33       ` Matthew Leach
2019-10-01 18:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 19:14           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 19:24           ` Matthew Leach
2019-10-02  2:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 17:51               ` Glenn Morris
2019-10-04 18:48                 ` Matthew Leach
2020-01-20 19:10                   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-20 19:30                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21  0:58                       ` Glenn Morris
2020-01-21 17:11                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 18:10                           ` Matthew Leach
2020-01-22  3:38                         ` Glenn Morris
2020-01-22 15:46                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-04 16:01                             ` Glenn Morris
2020-08-15 12:37                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-24 18:08                           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21  3:04                       ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-04 18:47               ` Matthew Leach
2019-10-07  4:11             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-07  9:16               ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-08 16:38                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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