The problem is descripted in the above URL; to use the M-x term terminal emulation in xemacs and being able to invoke commands like top in the emulation, impossible with M-x shell, the following steps have to be taken. 1) In ~/.bashrc have something like +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # /etc/skel/.bashrc: # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/skel/.bashrc,v 1.7 2002/11/18 19:39:22 azarah Exp $ # This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup. This # file *should generate no output* or it will break the scp and rcp commands. # colors for ls, etc. eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS` alias d="ls --color" alias ls="ls --color=auto" alias ll="ls --color -l" # Change the window title of X terminals case $TERM in xterm*|rxvtx) PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$ HOME/~}\007"' # # PS1 must be set here accourfing to the NET export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\w \$ \[\033[00m\]' # ;; screen) PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HO ME/~}\033\\"' # # PS1 must be set here accourfing to the NET export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\w \$ \[\033[00m\]' # ;; emacs|eterm) unalias ls # # PS1 must be set here accourfing to the NET export PS1='\w>' # ;; esac ##uncomment the following to activate bash-completion: [ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2) in .xemacs/custom.el add (when (featurep 'xemacs) ;; this fixes awful stair-stepping when you do "M-x term", see: ;; http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200109/msg00139.html (add-hook 'term-exec-hook (lambda () (set-buffer-process-coding-system 'binary 'binary)))) Now, this fixed my problem with the terminal emulator (to run there gdb, run programs, whatever). The last bit is to have the color, it shold be possible to use colors with another ansi-color.el, but I have still to investigate this. If this problem was specific for my installation, and others can access with problems to the M-x term, I apologize for the unecessary bug report. R.G.
Hello, Apparently, if you add the following lines to ~/.xemacs/custom.el ---------------------- (autoload 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on "ansi-color" nil t) (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on) ---------------------- You do not need to modify your .bashrc: the ansi commands to render color and similia are handled by ansi-color.el. Maybe they could be set in the global xemacs settings in the installation phase, with an improved ebuild? A user with a fresh installation and no customizzations should modify the custom.el and verify that the standard settings are ok with the xemacs terminal emulation.. R.G.
Robert, can you check the status of this one?
Mass re-assign of really stale bugs; xemacs herd, please verify the status and close them if these issues no longer exist.
I would rather not create a special Gentoo-specific custom.el unless it is really needed to accommodate Gentoo-specific installation requirements. Therefore I'm closing this bug.
