From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: eric.hanchrow@gmail.com, 22154@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22154: 25.0.50; emacsclient -c "breaks" 256-color display in server
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:46:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqsi34cli7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834mfl3qvp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:02:34 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
>> Cc: eric.hanchrow@gmail.com, 22154@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:39:39 -0500
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
>> >> Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>, 22154@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >> Gcc: nnml+archive:sent-mail-2015
>> >> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:21:26 -0500
>> >>
>> >> Using different number of colors on different ttys should work.
>> >> I just tried it briefly, and it works fine on my Fedora machine with
>> >> 24.5.
>> >> I don't have a very recent version compiled.
>> >>
>> >> You can try it with
>> >> $ emacs -Q -f server-start&
>> >> Then from an xterm: emacsclient -t
>> >> And then from a different one: env TERM=vt100 emacsclient -t
>> >>
>> >> The frame in the first xterm should display some colors, the one in the
>> >> second should be b&w...
>> >
>> > This simple use case indeed (almost) works. (To have it work better,
>> > you need the patch I posted here.) But in general, the current
>> > implementation doesn't support this, AFAICT, for 2 reasons:
>>
>> What exactly is the problem that your patch fixes?
>
> The fact that the default escape sequences for turning colors on or
> off are stored in global variables that get overwritten each time
> another tty is initialized.
Can you describe a behavior that is incorrect?
>
>> I don't remember all the details, but having multiple terminal frames
>> running on multiple kinds of terminals, with different color depths and
>> even background modes was heavily tested when the multi-tty work was
>> going on. One of the usual tests was to have rxvt with both 8 and 256
>> colors and white on black and black on white (rxvt not xterm because
>> rxvt sets an environment variable with the default color and emacs can
>> decide if it's a light or dark background based on that). It worked
>> fine.
>> Did something break meanwhile or you are dealing with some new thing
>> that was not dealt with back then?
>
> I don't know. It's possible that the fact that set_tty_color_mode is
> now called as part of redisplay exposed some issue.
>
> And I don't understand how could what you describe work when there's
> only one global value of tty-defined-color-alist. Can you explain how
> that worked, given that each terminal's initialization overwrites that
> list?
Sorry, I don't remember the details, but it did work
In fact I just tried on emacs 24.5 with 3 terminals: xterm
with TERM=vt100, rxvt -fg black -bg white and rxvt -fg white -bg black.
emacsclient -t connected to the same emacs daemon
M-x list-faces-display looks correct on all 3 of the simultaneously.
Editing C code in a file displayed on the 3 terminals looks fine,
everything gets fontified with the expected colors everywhere.
Unfortunately I don't have a more recent emacs version on this machine...
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-12 21:49 bug#22154: 25.0.50; emacsclient -c "breaks" 256-color display in server Eric Hanchrow
2015-12-13 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-13 18:05 ` Eric Hanchrow
2015-12-13 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-13 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-13 18:47 ` Eric Hanchrow
2015-12-13 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-13 20:26 ` Eric Hanchrow
2015-12-13 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 6:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-12-14 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 16:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-12-14 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-15 5:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2015-12-15 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-15 16:37 ` Eric Hanchrow
2015-12-15 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-18 4:59 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2020-09-05 14:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-05 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 6:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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