Re: Emacs "dumb" terminal question.

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.11.2007 um 20:16 schrieb LeAnthony:

> So I think  that
> emacs should be OK with this setting to run SLIME?  I run emacs and
> start slime and get the same message.
> "emacs: Terminal type dumb..."

I have no idea what slime is (a green jelly from childhood?) and what  
it needs.

Since GNU Emacs reports "Terminal type dumb" it obviously has not  
read the TERM environment variable. Or some ELisp code resets it to  
the dumb value.

        (getenv "TERM")

in *scratch* buffer when evaluated (for example by C-j at the  
statement's end) should write (echo, copy) into the buffer the value  
of TERM from the environment GNU Emacs saw when it was launched from  
it. You can try to cheat GNU Emacs with

        (setenv "TERM" "xterm")

applied in *scratch* buffer or from ~/.emacs.

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Greetings

  Pete

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opposite.