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Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell
From: |
Francis Moreau |
Subject: |
Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:00:16 +0200 |
Hello,
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Livin Stephen <livin.stephen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> YMMV, but I had to "export TERM=xterm" in my ~/.bashrc to make M-x
> term work as per expectations...
hmm I'm probably missing something here but why exporting TERM=xterm
would change anything since it is already if you're using a window
manager.
> - i.e. to be usable for everyday use: on my Mac I'm perfectly happy
> with it's behaviour now!
ah ok you're using a Mac, so that explains probably why you need to export TERM
> (previous value in M-x term term used to show $TERM to be eterm-color
> or something like that)
>
yes and that should be again the case. Let see:
$ TERM=xterm emacs
< M-x term>
$ echo $TERM
eterm-color
I don't understand how you did that.
> After this change my man-pages, etc don't look like their full of odd
> characters (especiallly when trying to print single-quotes), nor is
> man-page text underlined randomly .
did you try to start mutt for example ?
> This TERM change definitely took care of at least issues 3/, and 5/
> which you mention
> - I have both "C-r" history-search and "TAB"-completion of shell-vars
> AND file-names working.
I don't think so, I'm talking about expansion, not completion for issue 5)
Thanks
--
Francis
Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell, Oleksandr Gavenko, 2008/09/12
Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell, rustom, 2008/09/13
Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell, Livin Stephen, 2008/09/13
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