Hi Terry,
> > Side effects from just that line? Or does `nano' on its own
> > afterwards work?
>
> Well I wasn't saying it wasn't working; I was saying that it was :-)
I don't understand why `nano' would give that error, and `TERM=vt220
nano' would give the same error, yet `TERM=vt220' followed by `nano'
would work. It suggests your shell isn't applying that environment
variable setting yet is still skipping it to run nano. Or you entered
something else. :-)
I can show the expected behaviour with tput(1).
$ unset TERM
$ tput cols
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
$ TERM=vt220 tput cols
80
$
> My comment was because you said that the setting would only affect
> nano, implying that if applied universally, there might be unwanted
> side effects.
No, I was implying that other commands that also want to know the
terminal would still be in the dark.
> I haven' changed my sig for about 10 years.
And yet these two recently emails show it's different in the amount of
space it takes.
https://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg08641.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg08644.html
This is the bit where you normally blame Thunderbird. :-)
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