GNU bug report logs - #3345
eshell environment does not override TERM

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: John Wiegley <johnw <at> newartisans.com>

Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 21:25:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 3344

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: John Wiegley <johnw <at> newartisans.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#3345: eshell environment does not override TERM
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:16:50 -0600

On May 21, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:

> When I invoke M-x eshell, subprocesses see the same TERM
> environment variable as the one from which emacs was launched.
> For example, when I launch emacs from an xterm, which has
> TERM=xterm set, then processes run from within eshell will
> see TERM=xterm as well and emit ANSI control codes for bold
> or colored output. But eshell does not interpret these control
> codes, and shows weird-looking ASCII characters instead.

This has been fixed in Emacs CVS.  Eshell now interprets many ANSI  
control codes by default.

John
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