Bug 76102

Summary:	emacs terminal not recognised
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Reuben Thomas <rrt>
Component:	xemacs	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	srevivo
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Description Reuben Thomas 2002-10-16 20:53:03 UTC

Description of Problem:

When I start a shell in xemacs, I get an error "terminal type emacs not recognised" from 
/etc/profile's use of tput.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start XEmacs
2. M-x shell
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:
	
I reported this bug in earlier releases of RH and it was apparently fixed, although I didn't 
test the fix as at the time I was using my own build of XEmacs. I'm now using the 
supplied RPM and still get this problem. I may well have missed something, but for some 
reason I can't query Bugzilla at the moment to find out the story from last time.

Comment 1 Reuben Thomas 2002-10-16 21:01:37 UTC

Sorry, I mean /etc/bashrc, not /etc/profile.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2002-10-17 01:43:45 UTC

Perhaps you were thinking of bug 52660?

Anyway reproduced with bash.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2002-10-17 01:54:24 UTC

TERM=dumb may be one possible workaround.  Or perhaps TERM
emacs could be special cased in bashrc?

I need to look into this morning.

Comment 4 Reuben Thomas 2002-10-17 09:01:04 UTC

What I've always done is added "$TERM" != "emacs" before the call of tput 
in /etc/bashrc.

But I think the real fix is to add an emacs term description to the termcap 
and/or terminfo db. How was it fixed before?

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2003-05-19 11:33:50 UTC

I just recalled that setting `system-uses-terminfo' to `t' fixes this.

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2003-05-19 12:00:29 UTC

Setting it in default.el in next build.

Comment 7 Reuben Thomas 2003-05-19 19:28:09 UTC

I'm happy with this solution (I've put (setq system-uses-terminfo t) in my init.el) so you can close the bug if you like.