From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal capability querying Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:02:55 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200204212002.g3LK2tb01785@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <87bscfqffo.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019419439 16929 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 20:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zNZ1-0004Ow-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:03:59 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zNZO-0007Cn-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:04:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zNYr-0003eT-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:03:49 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zNY0-0003b7-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3LK2ta20214; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:02:55 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g3LK2tb01785; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:02:55 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87bscfqffo.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (message from Miles Bader on 20 Apr 2002 11:20:11 +0900) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2961 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2961 One feature that I think would be useful and easy to implement would be the ability to query what capabilities (e.g., underlining, boldface) are supported when emacs is running on a tty. Is there a way for Emacs to find this out?