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Re: Emacs "dumb" terminal question.
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LeAnthony |
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Re: Emacs "dumb" terminal question. |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:03:24 -0800 (PST) |
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I attempted the items below, I'm using BASH by the way. Still getting
the not defined message when I attempt to start emacs. tset--Q is not
defined.
When I change it to ANSI or VT100 emacs gives me the "dump" message
again"
On Nov 16, 5:17 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 16.11.2007 um 03:20 schrieb LeAnthony:
>
> > I start slime and get e"macs: Terminal type "dumb" is
> > not powerful enough to run Emacs."
>
> PuTTY can be considered an xterm emulation. So it might help to put
> into your ~/.profile file something like
>
> TERM=`tset - -Q`
> export TERM
>
> tset tries to determine in which terminal emulation it is running.
> This is recorded in the TERM environment variable. GNU Emacs uses
> this to determine whether it can run in this environment.
>
> If this fails, then set in ~/.profile TERM to xterm or xterm-color
> and export the variable when logged in via ssh/PuTTY.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
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