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#30429
27.0.50; Emacs TERMINFO "xterm-direct" "efaq" example not working
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Reported by: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 02:11:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 27.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #11 received at 30429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On 12.02.2018 17:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:09:40 -0500
>>
>> The example in the "efaq" Info file gives the following
>>
>> TERM=xterm-direct emacs -nw
>>
>> When I execute this, as stated, I get an Emacs session
>> WITHOUT any colors -- even "M-x list-colors-display"
>> does not show any colors.
>>
>> However, if I change this to the following, I see colors
>> displayed:
>>
>> TERM=xterm-direct2 emacs -nw
>>
This is expected. Each direct mode TERM specification uses slightly
different seta[bf] string to display the colors. For example, currently
Gnome Terminal supports xterm-direct2 and iTerm2/XTerm support
xterm-direct. It's the user's responsibility to set TERM to something
that is supported by their terminal.
Emacs happens to be mentioned in the comment for xterm+direct2 in
Terminfo source file. However, this is just a coincidence and doesn't
mean that Emacs would have any connection with xterm-direct2. The
comment simply states that the non-standard set[bf]24 strings supported
by Emacs (before Terminfo added the standard capabilities) aren't added
to Terminfo as standard capabilities.
I chose to use xterm-direct in the FAQ, because Terminfo suggests that
seta[bf] strings of xterm-direct are the preferred way to display colors
in direct mode.
The bug here is that the FAQ could explain this more thoroughly, but
there's no bug in software.
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 104 days ago.
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