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From: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: gnu emacs and TERM
Message-ID: <1991May5.171657.6543@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 5 May 91 17:16:57 GMT
Sender: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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In order to get the function-keys to work on my atari under emacs, I have been
experimenting with setting up a vt52.el file so that keypad.el would run. This
may not be the easiest solution, but it is standard to the way emacs handles
terminal specific things.  

I managed to get the file together, but I can't emacs to load it automatically.
The problem appear to be that (getenv "TERM") always returns "vt52-emulator",
REGARDLESS of the real value of TERM. I have tried this, both with environ.prg
and under gulam, but no matter what TERM is set to, (getenv "TERM") still
returns "vt52-emulator". All the other environment variables works fine
however.

Why is this? My suspicion is that it has something to do with a termcap hack.
My version (which I think comes from atari.archive, at least the st hacks bears
Bammi's name) doesn't need the termcap, so perhaps something has been hardcoded
into emacs.


Christian Lynbech

DAIMI
University of Aarhus
DK-Denmark

email: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk