This has been reported as a bug against emacs. I suppose that the patch will be applied against the Debian emacs package, but you could install emacs-el and apply the patch yourself.
Austin Donnelly wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Package: emacs > >Version: 19.29-4 > > > >If Emacs is invoked from an xterm then ange-ftp doesn't work; the FTP > >program's readline interface produces terminal escape sequences > >appropriate to TERM=xterm, which it is obviously receiving from Emacs. > > > >Emacs should not set TERM=xterm for its subprocesses (it runs ftp in a > >pty, I believe). > > > >Invoking emacs as (bournelike shell) > > TERM=dumb emacs & > >works around the problem. > > I filed this one as a bug against emacs ages ago, and got a speedy > reply from Richard Stallman: > > | From: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Subject: Re: ange-ftp doesn't set TERM=dumb in inner shell > | Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 01:18:18 -0500 > | > | Thanks. Does this fix it? > | > | cd ~/e19/lisp/ > | diff -c /rms/e19/lisp/ange-ftp.el.\~1\~ /rms/e19/lisp/ange-ftp.el > | *** /rms/e19/lisp/ange-ftp.el.~1~ Thu Nov 16 17:27:14 1995 > | --- /rms/e19/lisp/ange-ftp.el Wed Dec 6 18:28:40 1995 > | *************** > | *** 1778,1784 **** > | ;; It would be nice to make process-connection-type nil, > | ;; but that doesn't work: ftp never responds. > | ;; Can anyone find a fix for that? > | ! (let ((process-connection-type t)) > | (if use-gateway > | (if ange-ftp-gateway-program-interactive > | (setq proc (ange-ftp-gwp-start host user name args)) > | --- 1778,1787 ---- > | ;; It would be nice to make process-connection-type nil, > | ;; but that doesn't work: ftp never responds. > | ;; Can anyone find a fix for that? > | ! (let ((process-connection-type t) > | ! (process-environment process-environment)) > | ! ;; This tells GNU ftp not to output any fancy escape sequences. > | ! (setenv "TERM" "dumb") > | (if use-gateway > | (if ange-ftp-gateway-program-interactive > | (setq proc (ange-ftp-gwp-start host user name args)) > | > | Diff exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Dec 6 18:48:56 -- Jeff Ebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ho-hum
