Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread jidanni
Package: vlc Version: 1.0.5-2 Severity: wishlist vlc -H assumes a certain kind of terminal. E.g., in emacs, one must do (compile vlc -H|col -b) to see it clearly. Same in an M-x shell window. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread Andreas Marschke
Am Mittwoch 10 März 2010 14:34:41 schrieb jida...@jidanni.org: Package: vlc Version: 1.0.5-2 Severity: wishlist vlc -H assumes a certain kind of terminal. E.g., in emacs, one must do (compile vlc -H|col -b) to see it clearly. Same in an M-x shell window. In eshell it works fine for me.

Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread jidanni
Anyway, if one really wants to put all those control characters in the output, one should check $TERM. TERM=dumb should stop them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread Christophe Mutricy
Le Wed 10 Mar 10 à 21:34 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org a écrit : vlc -H assumes a certain kind of terminal. E.g., in emacs, one must do (compile vlc -H|col -b) to see it clearly. Same in an M-x shell window. What's the actual problem ? Non printable characters ? (--nocolor would help) Bad

Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread Reinhard Tartler
severity 573304 wishlist tag 573304 upstream stop On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 20:33:16 (CET), Christophe Mutricy wrote: Le Wed 10 Mar 10 à 21:34 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org a écrit : vlc -H assumes a certain kind of terminal. E.g., in emacs, one must do (compile vlc -H|col -b) to see it clearly.

Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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

Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread jidanni
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

Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread jidanni
Yes. Please check with terminfo/termcap, or at least don't send escapes when TERM=dumb. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org