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Why does zsh not work in an Emacs shell mode any more?

April 26, 2017Emacs mode Shell zsh

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Why does zsh not work in an Emacs shell mode any more?

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(This information comes from Bart Schaefer and other zsh-workers.) Emacs 19.29 or thereabouts stopped using a terminal type of “emacs” in shell buffers, and instead sets it to “dumb”. Zsh only kicks in its special I’m-inside-emacs initialization when the terminal type is “emacs”.