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No *curses applications (like top, htop, Linux kernel's make menuconfig and others) will work under emacs' different terms. However, the only one which seems to work is git add -i

It behaves the same under term, multi-term and ansi-term: output a lot of messy garbage. It does the same when not splitting frames and I reproduced this behavior without any configuration (moved .emacs and .emacs.d somewhere else).

I included a screenshot of when I tried a make menuconfig in Linux kernel's base directory.

I am running GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-04-17 on lgw01-04, modified by Debian in GUI on Ubuntu 16.04.

Is there a way of fixing this ? Is it just an isolated bug or related to emacs in general ?

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FYI I have no issues running top and htop under ansi-term in Emacs 24.5. Possibly your issues are on account of missing eterm-color terminfo? I believe apt-get install ncurses-term on Debian systems should install this for you; or you can copy (or symlink) the eterm-color and eterm-color.ti files from the /usr/share/emacs/xx.x/etc/e directory to a ~/.terminfo/e/ directory, or system-wide at /usr/share/terminfo/e/. – phils Jun 10 '16 at 0:48
    
I installed ncurses-term with no results. Then I tried to move /usr/share/emacs/24.5/etc/e/eterm-color* to /usr/share/terminfo/e/ without success. Also tried to move them to ~/.terminfo/e/ without a change. Also removed original eterm-color from /usr/share/terminfo/e/ still without a change. Also tried to do the opposite and moved /usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color to /usr/share/emacs/xx.x/etc/e/ but that didn't work. Do I need to reboot, login/logout, use another command to refresh some cache or activate these configs ? – deb0ch Jun 10 '16 at 8:27
    
I don't think so. You could try it, but I'm guessing this wasn't actually the source of the problem (but nevertheless a good thing to have in place, and to keep in mind in general for any remote hosts you connect to). – phils Jun 10 '16 at 9:19
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Reddit just had a discussion on terminals. Try this?

(setq eshell-visual-commands 
      (cons eshell-visual-commands '("el" "elinks" "htop" "less" "ssh" "tmux" "top" "mbsync" "docker" "docker-compose"))

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4nwow3/emacs_shell_configuration_for_2016/d48n3t3

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this only affects eshell, which is is not a terminal at all – Joseph Garvin Jun 16 '16 at 14:51

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