Re: Multi-tty

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:49:02 +0100, Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> said:
>
>     Gerd> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>     >>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>     >>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  rpluim@gmail.com,
>     >>> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>     >>> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:16:05 +0100
>     >>> 
>     >>> I wouldn't try to "fix" the general handling of environment variables,
>     >>> if that's even possible, which I kind of doubt as you do, I think. I'd
>     >>> just replace the getenv("COLORTERM") with some lookup of COLORTERM in
>     >>> what emacsclient sent to the server.
>     >> 
>     >> I have another suggestion: remove the support for COLORTERM entirely,
>     >> or at least announce that it is not supported per-terminal.  It's high
>     >> time terminals that support true color have their terminfo entries
>     >> fixed and up-to-date.  We supported COLORTERM during the transition
>     >> period, as a temporary kludge, to help people who had those terminals,
>     >> but whose terminfo DB did not yet catch up, but we should slowly move
>     >> towards removing that support from Emacs.
>
>     Gerd> COLORTERM is used right now by popular programs (e.g. iTerm2) on my
>     Gerd> system (macOS). So doing that is not an option for me.
>
> You just need the right terminfo entry for iTerm2. See eg
>
> <https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/32506/conditional-true-color-24-bit-color-support-for-iterm2-and-terminal-app-in-osx>
>

Thanks, I know how to work around that. It's just another thing that
could work OOTB, but doesn't.