Re: [Monotone-devel] Win32 version 0.19 ticker dot default now?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:37:52PM +0200, Henry Nestler wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The ticker is default "dot".  Should default "count"?  See --help.
> Older version 0.18 was "--ticker=count" default.

The change is that we taught the Win32 version how to detect whether
it was writing to a terminal or not, and choose between "count" and
"dot" on that basis.  I guess this means that our logic is not clever
enough to figure out that whatever terminal you are using is, in fact,
a terminal?

The code in question is in win32/terminal.cc; basically, it says, dumb
terminals are those for which one of the following holds:
  -- not a tty, according to _isatty()
  -- environment variable TERM is unset, or empty, or equal to "dumb",
     or equal to "emacs"

Hopefully that gives some clue why your terminal is being misdetected?

-- Nathaniel

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