From: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: kai@emptydomain.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (getenv "TERM") always returns "dumb"
Date: 06 Sep 2004 12:09:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14qmbwfam.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1C3ilS-0002uz-Om@fencepost.gnu.org>
> Right, but *none* of the subprocesses can talk directly to the
> terminal on which Emacs was started, so every single piece of elisp
> that starts a process should change the TERM variable. It seems
> preferable to change it once and forall, doesn't it?
> It would be more elegant, but the change causes problems.
Yes, as I said in an ealier email, it needs more work (i.e. stash the
original value and make it available through a new function
`terminal-type'), and as long as noone does it, it's better to revert the
change,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-06 16:09 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
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 [this message]
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