[Monotone-devel] --ticker count vs dot and smart terminals

[Derek Scherger]

I've recently noticed that emacs shell-mode (in emacs 22.1.1 at least) 
seems to handle --ticker=count style tickers properly and I'm thinking 
that we could/should remove "emacs" from the following in 
unix/terminal.cc (have_smart_terminal):

  if (term == "" || term == "emacs" || term == "dumb"
      || !isatty(2))
    return false;

This little snippet is responsible for choosing dot style tickers in the 
case where your terminal is not likely to support the nicer count style 
tickers.

I don't know how many people use emacs shell mode to run mtn 
push/pull/sync commands but for anyone who does, could you try with 
--ticker=count and see what it looks like.

Cheers,
Derek