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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (getenv "TERM) always returns "dumb"
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:30:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jefz63zmbx.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ch0gas$mjp$1@sea.gmane.org> (Peter Heslin's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:21:49 +0000 (UTC)")

Peter Heslin <usenet@heslin.eclipse.co.uk> writes:

> Due to a recent change in startup.el, (getenv "TERM") now always
> returns "dumb":
>
> ;; Subprocesses of Emacs do not have direct access to the terminal, 
> ;; so unless told otherwise they should only assume a dumb terminal. 
>     (setenv "TERM" "dumb")

I think we should revert that change unless Stefan comes up with a better
idea.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31  0:21 (getenv "TERM) always returns "dumb" Peter Heslin
2004-08-31  9:30 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-08-31 13:35   ` Stefan
2004-08-31 19:57     ` Peter Heslin
2004-08-31 20:11     ` (getenv "TERM") " Davis Herring
2004-09-01 19:24       ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-02  9:06         ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-09-03 17:24           ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-03 18:16             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-03 22:34               ` Juri Linkov
2004-09-04 22:12               ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-06 16:09                 ` Stefan

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