Re: Is it possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on framebuffer-enabled tty

[zwz <zhangweize@gmail.com>]

Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: zwz <zhangweize@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:05:50 +0800
>>> 
>>> Do you mean if there is a lisp/term/fbterm.el that deals with the
>>> escapes, then it is possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on fbterm?
>>
>> No, such an fbterm.el does not exist.  But given enough information
>> about this terminal, it could be written in a way that's similar to
>> xterm.el.
>
> I think the 256 colors support in term/xterm.el is general enough to
> support fbterm as well.  At least the following quick'n'dirty adaption
> from term/linux.el seems to work for that (provided the terminfo stuff
> is correctly installed, TERM is set to fbterm and the code below is
> saved to term/fbterm.el somewhere in load-path).
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> ;; -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
>
> (load "term/xterm")
>
> (defun terminal-init-fbterm ()
>   "Terminal initialization function for linux fbterm."
>   (unless (terminal-coding-system)
>     (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8-unix))
>
>   ;; It can't really display underlines.
>   (tty-no-underline)
>
>   (ignore-errors (when gpm-mouse-mode (require 't-mouse)
> (gpm-mouse-enable)))
>
>   (xterm-register-default-colors))
>
> ;;; fbterm.el ends here
> #+END_SRC

Great, the code works!

Is it a good idea to make it the default code to run when Emacs can not
find the right term/*.el if term/xterm.el is really general enough?