Re: 23.0.50; $TERM in shell-mode buffers

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Isuspect this happened right around the time of the multi-tty
>> checkin.
>> 
>> The TERM environment variable in shell-mode buffers is  now
>> inheriting its value from emacs' environment, so in my world,
>> it's either showing up as "linux" at the linux console, or
>> "screen" when running under screen.
>> 
>> This causes confusion if one runs things like ssh from shell-mode
>> buffers, because the other end treats it as a true terminal.
>> 
>> Would be nice for shell-mode buffers to go back to using "emacs"
>> as the terminal type.
>> 
>> In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20, multi-tty)
>> of 2007-08-29 on labrador

> Stefan made a lot of change this morning on the SHELL variable, can you
> test if it still fails?

You meant "TERM", right? ;-)
Yes, my changes should fix this kind of problem (as well as similar
problems we've been seeing for years now).


        Stefan