From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (getenv "TERM) always returns "dumb" Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:30:26 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093944678 31152 80.91.224.253 (31 Aug 2004 09:31:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:31:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 31 11:31:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C24yr-0005OP-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:31:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C253j-0002gE-1A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C253b-0002fx-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C253Z-0002eP-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C253Z-0002dv-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C24yD-00049A-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A97B480C4; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:30:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Peter Heslin X-Yow: I am a traffic light, and Alan Ginsberg kidnapped my laundry in 1927! In-Reply-To: (Peter Heslin's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:21:49 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26639 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26639 Peter Heslin 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,=20 > ;; so unless told otherwise they should only assume a dumb terminal.=20 > (setenv "TERM" "dumb") I think we should revert that change unless Stefan comes up with a better idea. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."