From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
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: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:10:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8uyrlja.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sq0jqi6.fsf@mattleach.net> (Matthew Leach's message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:48:49 +0100")
Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net> writes:
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I think the point is that no terminal emulator / shell combination
>> actually exports LINES and COLUMNS as environment variables, except for
>> Emacs term.el. So no application can be relying on the LINES and COLUMNS
>> environment variables (since there aren't any applications specifically
>> for use inside Emacs's term). So term.el should stop setting them, since
>> it actually causes problems.
>
> Exactly that. By exporting these variables it's causing more problems
> than it solves.
That sounds reasonable to me. Should we go ahead and install the
original patch on the master branch then, or is there more to discuss?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-20 19:10 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
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 [this message]
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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