Re: stty isn't a terminal

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.03.2005 um 00:19 schrieb Stefan Monnier:

> > if (! $?TERM) setenv TERM xterm
>
> This is bogus.
>
> > if (($TERM == xterm) | ($TERM == nxterm)) then
> >      setenv TERM xterm-color
> >      stty erase '^?'
> > endif
>
> This is also bogus because TERM might be defined even if you're not on
> a tty.

Yes, of course, I know! I had to do this non-sense earlier for Mac OS X 
to have GNU Emacs work in Apple's Terminal application with colours. I 
checked today that in Mac OS X 10.3(.8) it's not necesary any more.

>   IIRC from my csh days, you should check $tty before using stty.

Yes, tcsh sets $tty ...

> > Is it a bug that GNU Emacs 22 from CVS does not set TERM for
> > shell-mode-on-region?
>
> It would be a bug to set TERM in such a case.

Oh yes, that's right, of course!

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Greetings

  Pete