Hello,
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, 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
