Re: Emacs AngeFTP fails on macOS 10.14 with GNU inetutils FTP

[Simon Josefsson]

Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>
>> Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> writes:
>>
>>> Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I keep debugging what's going on there. I have found an interesting,
>>>> platform-dependent behavior in Emacs that may or may not be related to
>>>> this problem.
>>>
>>> I was looking at what Bash and tnftp do when they run in an Emacs
>>> comint-mode (shell and ange-ftp, respectively) and the below seems to be
>>> the easiest fix. It's more or less directly copied from tnftp.
>>
>> Thanks for debugging -- can you test if what I committed also works?
>>
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=ef2060d53581649f6347574b21ecbbdcc0067b8a
>
> I have tested this on macOS 10.14.6 and it works. Thanks!
>
>> Having magic environment variables like this is not ideal, but I guess
>> it already spread to bash and other tools, so it is now a feature.
>
> It seems like it's been around for quite a while. I just checked tnftp
> and the dumbterm check has been in there since at least lukemftp 1.0 in
> 1999.

Thanks for testing!  This will be in inetutils 2.1, whenever it is
released...

/Simon

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