Give TERM=dumb Higher Priority

Emacs M-x shell runs the shell in an environment where the TERM variable is set to dumb, which informs the shell and applications that the terminal does not support any terminal control escape sequences.

While you have code to handle the dumb setting, both the Windows platform processing and the TERM_PROGRAM are processed first.

For instance on macOS,

$ cd /path/to/mocha/node_modules
$ TERM=dumb node -e "var tty = require('./supports-color'); console.log(tty.stdout);"
{ level: 2, hasBasic: true, has256: true, has16m: false }
$ TERM_PROGRAM= TERM=dumb node -e "var tty = require('./supports-color'); console.log(tty.stdout);"
false

Mocha is getting publicly blamed for this. Suggestions?

[plroebuck]

I concur with PR change from @Alhadis. Mocha will be doing a major release RSN; it’d be nice to get this in (via package dependency update).

[Alhadis]

Have a look for yourself: https://github.com/Alhadis/AdobeFontMetrics.js/blob/master/test/1.1-global-spec.js

I actually edited the the it handler to literally include “It” before the test title in the output,because I was getting sick of my beautifully-writen tests not sounding as eloquent as I am.

I’m tired as shit right now, just letting everybbody be aware of that. 😄