In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> Date: 12 Feb 1996 15:12:00 +0200 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) >> >> > I recommend that this be the standard config. As you just found out, >> > it causes too many problems to include readline in ftp. >> >> Nope, Emacs has a (known and AFAIK fixed in newer versions) bug with what >> it passes to clients as TERM. Ftp is quite ok. > > This is also a bug in the Debian ftp. GNU internally (i.e. we >don't realease or maintain this) has an FTP client that has readline >built in, and it doesn't have the problem with older versions of emacs >that the Debian FTP client does. Readline shouldn't be used if >isatty() is false.
See Bug#2281 in the bug tracking system: a patch for ange-ftp has been received from Richard Stallman. Austin
