From: Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Colors on TTY (v26)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 11:22:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF8BazC+WjcbJUzdu-OPT7rjaWSzzDCZtmBHvzuCG3_3orkeRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Trial and error shown that emacs holds special knowledge on terminal names:
f.ex. "xterm-something" works as 256 colors and "xterm2" works as 16
colors. This is in fact very strange because there are terminals like
"screen.xterm-256color".
So it's not good to hold special magic about term names for that. Why it
doesn't check terminfo db for that (though it checks for 24bit as doc
states)? Looks like a bug to me.
To test it:
1. infocmp your current term into file;
2. rename file and rename term inside it;
3. tic renamed file;
4. set TERM to renamed term.
And voila: it's either 256 or 16 colors depending on term name!
Another bug:
(list-color-display)
always shows 16 colors from .emacs file (or from -f option). It detects 256
colors somehow later and then list-colors-display executed interactively
shows different result.
--
All the best,
Aleksey Midenkov
@midenok
next reply other threads:[~2019-03-31 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-31 8:22 Aleksey Midenkov [this message]
2019-03-31 15:15 ` Colors on TTY (v26) Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-31 17:20 ` Aleksey Midenkov
2019-03-31 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-31 18:09 ` Aleksey Midenkov
2019-03-31 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-31 19:45 ` Aleksey Midenkov
2019-03-31 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
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