Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

jidanni at jidanni.org jidanni at jidanni.org
Thu Mar 11 05:16:48 UTC 2010


> > What's the actual problem ?
> > Non printable characters ? (--nocolor would help) Bad wrapping ?
Yes. Gibberish on the screen.
> > Is emacs really providing a terminal ?
Don't worry about that. Just say we are using an line printer or PDA and want a pure no-escapes text. So we set TERM=dumb and expect it to be honored.





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