From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: 48439@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48439: 28.0.50; Support for the Alacritty terminal emulator
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 14:30:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y2cgw7xb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2cgcki3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Tassilo Horn on Sat, 15 May 2021 13:07:59 +0200)
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 13:07:59 +0200
>
> So I can either set TERM=xterm-256color in my Alacritty config or use
> the following patch to alias alacritty to xterm in Emacs.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> lisp/faces.el | 2 +-
>
> modified lisp/faces.el
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ term-file-aliases
> ("vt320" . "vt200")
> ("vt400" . "vt200")
> ("vt420" . "vt200")
> - )
> + ("alacritty" . "xterm"))
> "Alist of terminal type aliases.
> Entries are of the form (TYPE . ALIAS), where both elements are strings.
> This means to treat a terminal of type TYPE as if it were of type ALIAS."
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> IMHO, it would make sense to have that alias is place at least until
> someone comes up with "proper" support for Alacritty.
Is Alacritty really similar to 256-color xterm? What are the
differences? Do you know where I can find the terminfo database for
Alacritty?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-15 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-15 11:07 bug#48439: 28.0.50; Support for the Alacritty terminal emulator Tassilo Horn
2021-05-15 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-15 11:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-15 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-15 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-15 13:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-15 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 20:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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