From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: terminal capability querying
Date: 22 Apr 2002 09:20:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6wsh9dy.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204212002.g3LK2tb01785@aztec.santafe.edu>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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?
The face code obviously has to know which features a terminal has (and
which escape sequences control them) in order to display any given
attribute.
I'm merely suggesting a way for lisp code to get this information.
-Miles
--
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-22 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-20 2:20 terminal capability querying Miles Bader
2002-04-20 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-20 8:12 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-20 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-20 9:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-20 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-21 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 0:20 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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