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

[Henry Nestler]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> 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?

Yes, it's a open command prompt on Windows XP-Home. No redirection for 
input and output. Simple command line.

Only for debug have output redir with "2>out.txt"

> 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?

TERM ist not set per default XP environment.
If I set TERM=ansi, count was use.

--
Henry