[Crash-utility] crash CPU bound waiting for user response

[Dave Anderson]

Chip Coldwell wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 
> 
>>==> It does not say in what way the terminal is not fully
>>functional.  That seems like a bug.
> 
> 
> Well, the issue is that the emacs terminal emulator does not fully
> support the [n]curses escape sequences needed to position the cursor
> for your pager (e.g. less).  An amusing thing is that the emacs
> terminal emulation isn't powerful enough to run a recursive emacs: try
> "M-x shell" and then run "emacs -nw" at the shell prompt.  You'll get
> the same message.
> 
> Chip
> 

I would think the easiest way to deal with this issue would be
to not allow crash to use "less" if the TERM type is "vanilla".
And if it is vanilla, fall back to using "more", which is what
is done now if "less" doesn't exist on the host system.

Dave