From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal capability querying Date: 22 Apr 2002 09:20:09 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6wsh9dy.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <87bscfqffo.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <200204212002.g3LK2tb01785@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019434890 830 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2002 00:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:21:30 +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 16zRaE-0000DH-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 02:21:30 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zRag-0004d4-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 02:21:58 +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 16zRZw-0008EA-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zRYz-00083b-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-200.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.200] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 16zRYx-0000gQ-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:20:11 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CBDF1307E; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:20:09 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200204212002.g3LK2tb01785@aztec.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 17 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:2967 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2967 Richard Stallman 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