Re: [Monotone-devel] --ticker count vs dot and smart terminals

[Derek Scherger]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Derek Scherger <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've recently noticed that emacs shell-mode (in emacs 22.1.1 at least)
> > seems to handle --ticker=count style tickers properly and I'm thinking
> > that we could/should remove "emacs" from the following in
> > unix/terminal.cc (have_smart_terminal):
> >
> >    if (term == "" || term == "emacs" || term == "dumb"
> >        || !isatty(2))
> >      return false;
> >
> > This little snippet is responsible for choosing dot style tickers in
> > the case where your terminal is not likely to support the nicer count
> > style tickers.
>
> Maybe it should be a lua hook? 

Yeah, I wondered that too... setting TERM=dumb should do the trick though.

> However, I almost always use a shell script when syncing, to specify
> the remote database. So it's easy to add --ticker=count (or some other
> style) to it.
>
> > I don't know how many people use emacs shell mode to run mtn
> > push/pull/sync commands but for anyone who does, could you try with
> > --ticker=count and see what it looks like.
>
> Works for me with Emacs 22 and 21 on Win32, and Emacs 22 on Cygwin; +1
> for your change.

I've gone ahead and made this change so it should be present in 0.39 
unless Richard has been doing a release while on a plane. ;)

Cheers,
Derek