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. ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

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. ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.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

Processed: Re: Bug#573304: vlc -H assumes a terminal

2010-03-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 573304 wishlist Bug #573304 [vlc] vlc -H assumes a terminal Ignoring request to change severity of Bug 573304 to the same value. tag 573304 upstream Bug #573304 [vlc] vlc -H assumes a terminal Added tag(s) upstream. stop Stopping

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