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Term mode doesn't set tty erase

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From: Scott Bell <sctb <at> me.com>
To: 5331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5331: Term mode doesn't set tty erase
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:23:12 -0700

On 2010-01-08, at 12:09 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Scott Bell <sctb <at> me.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2010-01-07, at 2:35 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> 
>>> Scott Bell <sctb <at> me.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 2010-01-07, at 1:27 AM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>>> 
>>> term.el does not do anything special for tcsh, so because it works
>>> there, it's probably a problem in the initialization of the other
>>> shells, not in term.el.
>> 
>> I agree. It seems like a shame that Mac OS relies on
>> the default emulator (Terminal.app) to perform this
>> initialization.
> 
> Not sure what you mean...
> It's probably due to buggy initialization for those shells, or because
> they get confused about TERM value used by term.el: eterm-color.

Terminal.app has to be doing something, because I've tried
setting term-term-name to 'xterm-color', which is the same
TERM used by Terminal.app. So it seems like buggy shell
initialization which Terminal.app is overriding somehow.

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