From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, boutcher@cs.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not open editor in dumb terminal
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:58:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E55BC5.4010400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060205003741.GB29021@kvasir.watson.ibm.com>
Amos Waterland wrote:
>
> If your TERM is set to `emacs' then that is fine. If it is set to
> `dumb' however, that seems a bit strange. A dumb terminal is usually
> understood to be one that does not have the ability to interpret control
> sequences.
>
> The reason I sent the patch is that people get a rather unpleasant
> introduction to git when vi splatters control characters all over their
> emacs session when they do their first commit. I agree that people
> probably should have their EDITOR set to emacsclient though, so if you
> want to just leave the code as is that's cool with me.
>
Sounds more like an unpleasant introduction to emacs.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-05 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-03 11:41 [PATCH] do not open editor in dumb terminal Amos Waterland
2006-02-03 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-05 0:37 ` Amos Waterland
2006-02-05 1:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-02-05 2:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-05 5:04 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-02-05 5:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-05 17:44 ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-06 0:56 ` Junio C Hamano
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