From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:58:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not open editor in dumb terminal
Message-ID: <43E55BC5.4010400@zytor.com>
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