GNU bug report logs - #37564
[PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in term to fix ncurses applications

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 11432

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #59 received at 37564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: matthew <at> mattleach.net, 37564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rgm <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37564: [PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in
 term to fix ncurses applications
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 04:04:18 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> As for "causing more problems than it solves", I don't think I saw
> any evidence for that: even the one use case which started this bug
> report was later shown to behave as expected.

The recipe in the OP was:

> emacs -Q
> M-x term
> <ret> (to select /bin/bash)
> htop (to run htop)
> 
> and resizing the window (especially making it smaller) can make the
> program impossible to read.

When I do this on my machine, the output gets all messed up and
impossible to read.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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