Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

Wed Mar 10 21:46:42 UTC 2010

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:29:37PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>AFAIU this report, vlc does not sufficiently check if the terminal is 
>able to decode ansi sequences. This could for instance be implemented 
>by checking the TERM variable. The shellbuffer puts 'TERM=dump' there, 
>'M-x term' puts 'TERM=eshell-color'.

Correction: TERM=dumb

It is a stupid terminal, not one that drops something.

  - Jonas

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