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szermatt / mistty

Shell/Comint alternative with a fully functional terminal for Emacs 29.1 and later.
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menuconfig does not work #10

Closed bradprob closed 1 year ago

bradprob commented 1 year ago

Hi, mistty does not show menuconfig correctly. The following warning is shown:

WARNING: Menuconfig may fail because of the TERM environment variable is set to "xterm". Please consult the documentation of your terminal to set it up. Some good, proved to been working setups include xterm-256color, screen-256color, rxvt-unicode-256color, alacritty.

szermatt commented 1 year ago

The correct value of TERM for mistty is eterm-color. This is set by default, but apparently something sets it to xterm on your system.

Please retry with TERM set to eterm-color.

To be sure, you are talking about the tool that's in the linux kernel source, launched by 'make menuconfig' ? It worked for me with TERM set to eterm-color, at least for linux-6.5.7. With TERM set to xterm, on the other hand, things went bad pretty quickly.

szermatt commented 1 year ago

If TERM is overridden, it's likely that TERMCAP and TERMINFO are overridden as well. In such a situation, just setting TERM back to eterm-color might not be enough.

You might also want to check that the Emacs installation has added /etc/terminfo/e/eterm-color to your system. If not, you can find that file in the Emacs source repository or package under etc/e/eterm-color.