GNU bug report logs - #5379
emacs wont start

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrew Kurn <kurn <at> sfu.ca>

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 5379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrew Kurn <kurn <at> sfu.ca>
Cc: 5379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5379: emacs wont start
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:18:57 +0100

Andrew Kurn <kurn <at> sfu.ca> writes:

> Emacs won't start with TERM=xterm-color.
>
> -----
> emacs: Terminal type xterm-color is not defined.
> If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, [. . .]
> -----
>
> However, it *will* start with TERM=xterm 
>
> This contradicts the doc, which says that the type is stripped, one
> hyphen at a time, until it finds a name it recognizes (and therefore
> it should come to xterm and start).

That's only related to how the terminal-specific initialization file is
found under term.

Andreas.

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