From: "Rami Ylimäki" <rami.ylimaki@vincit.fi>
To: 30429@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30429: [PATCH] Improve FAQ about direct mode terminals.
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:37:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180212193754.10632-1-rami.ylimaki@vincit.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873727rmaj.fsf@aol.com>
* doc/misc/efaq.texi (Colors on a TTY): Show how to list direct mode
TERM definitions. (Bug#30429)
---
doc/misc/efaq.texi | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq.texi b/doc/misc/efaq.texi
index fef9b1051b..ffd833f832 100644
--- a/doc/misc/efaq.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/efaq.texi
@@ -1525,6 +1525,19 @@ Colors on a TTY
$ TERM=xterm-direct emacs -nw
@end example
+If your terminal is incompatible with XTerm, you may have to use
+another TERM definition.
+
+@example
+$ toe | grep '\-direct'
+
+konsole-direct konsole with direct-color indexing
+vte-direct vte with direct-color indexing
+st-direct st with direct-color indexing
+xterm-direct2 xterm with direct-color indexing (old)
+xterm-direct xterm with direct-color indexing
+@end example
+
Terminals with @samp{RGB} capability treat pixels #000001 - #000007 as
indexed colors to maintain backward compatibility with applications
that are unaware of direct color mode. Therefore the seven darkest
--
2.14.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-12 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-12 2:09 bug#30429: 27.0.50; Emacs TERMINFO "xterm-direct" "efaq" example not working Live System User
2018-02-12 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-12 16:38 ` Rami Ylimäki
2018-02-12 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-12 19:37 ` Rami Ylimäki [this message]
2018-02-13 5:35 ` bug#30429: [PATCH] Improve FAQ about direct mode terminals Eli Zaretskii
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