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Re: Running iForth from Emacs

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mhx@iae.nl writes:

> On Thursday, July 24, 2014 8:32:30 AM UTC+2, Alexander Skobelev wrote:
> [..]
>
> /Users/sasha/Library/iForth/i64.app/Contents/MacOS/iforth :: TERM does not exist.  
>
> That is a message from the iServer during loading the image. 
> It means that you should set the environment variable TERM 
> (on the OS commandline) to match the terminal characteristics 
> you want. Maybe Charles Turner will come back on this.
>
>> I'm just wondering, is it possible and how to run iForth 
>> from Emacs and use it with gforth-mode? 
>
> I guess the Emacs manual will have a section on MacOS.
> An empty TERM variable is in principle not a fatal error for
> iForth, but Emacs may have different ideas on that.
>

Well, if try running iForth from Emacs's shell mode, there is TERM set to
dumb, and iForth doesn't run. If set TERM to xterm-color256, it doesn't
run also. :(

> By the way, you should upgrade your iForth. The release
> you have there is 4 years out of date.

You are right, but I believe it is the latest available free version of
iForth for Mac OSX available from the iForth server, isn't it? 

>
> -marcel

Thanks for response!

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Running iForth from Emacs Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 10:32 +0400
  Re: Running iForth from Emacs mhx@iae.nl - 2014-07-24 00:13 -0700
    Re: Running iForth from Emacs Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 18:14 +0400

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