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bug#5379: emacs wont start
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#5379: emacs wont start |
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Date: |
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:18:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
Andrew Kurn <kurn@sfu.ca> writes:
> Emacs won't start with TERM=xterm-color.
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> emacs: Terminal type xterm-color is not defined.
> If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, [. . .]
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> However, it *will* start with TERM=xterm
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> This contradicts the doc, which says that the type is stripped, one
> hyphen at a time, until it finds a name it recognizes (and therefore
> it should come to xterm and start).
That's only related to how the terminal-specific initialization file is
found under term.
Andreas.
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