From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: "dumb" terminal of daemon intefering with backspace/del keys
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:09:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xeia7hd3405q.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
Hi all,
I am trying to run an Emacs daemon process in the background, but it
breaks backspace / DEL key handling in amusing ways. I start by
launching the daemon:
gkeramidas:~$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
gkeramidas:~$ utf-emacs --daemon
("/opt/emacs/bin/emacs")
Ido mode disabled
Loading vc...
Loading vc...done
Starting Emacs daemon.
But then in new text frames created by the daemon process TERM is set to
the "dumb" terminal type.
gkeramidas:~$ emacsclient -e '(getenv "TERM")'
"dumb"
This means that instead of `DEL' my laptop's backspace key generates
`C-d' in new text frames. So instead of typing backspace to invoke
`delete-backward-char', I now get `delete-char' from the keyboard's
backspace key.
Is there any way to reconfigure the terminal type to "xterm-256color"
when new text frames are created? More importantly, if this is not
possible, is there a way to avoid the dump vs. xterm differences when
using daemon mode?
next reply other threads:[~2011-02-14 6:09 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-14 6:09 Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2011-02-14 8:57 ` "dumb" terminal of daemon intefering with backspace/del keys Andreas Schwab
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