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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:01:37 +0200
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Re: Emacs 23.3 release
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> From: Allan J Mui <mu8ja0i AT earthlink DOT net>
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:10:15 -0500
> 
> By the way, I recently learned about the effect
> of the TERM environment variable. This happened after I installed
> 'ncurses' and had to set the TERM veriable to get it to work. The
> setting of TERM to enable 'ncurses' correct functioning is incompatible
> with DJGPP Emacs; it makes the background dark and often makes it
> crash. I am sure you already know this.

Yes, currently Emacs supports only TERM=internal (or not set at all).
Any other value of TERM is only half-supported for debugging purposes.

You can countermand the setting of TERM you use for other programs in
the "emacs" entry of djgpp.env.

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