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bug#37564: [PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in term to fi


From: Matthew Leach
Subject: bug#37564: [PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in term to fix ncurses applications
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:48:49 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

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.
-- 
Matt





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