Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alexander Skobelev Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Running iForth from Emacs Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:14:42 +0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <72bfcfeb-e69c-477f-8f99-ba67f12ca62c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="be476676237aa99af27cacce6e1efb64"; logging-data="19927"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19e4cd5sBkYwNpiovDMMjhN" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TT0jnCL6EtGccCdBo6t/38qrwhI= sha1:XRMEk3/PJLc2hxasXBMFhzJZKF0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:32621 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 you have there is 4 years out of date.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!