GNU bug report logs - #62237
28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>

Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 62237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 18:35:31 +0000

Quoth Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
on Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:13:45 +0200:
> […] Or does GNOME itself support true color?

GNOME Terminal/VTE does support true color, but why continue to employ
"a long-obsolete slang-only variable used to work around broken
termcap/terminfo entries"?

Another wrinkle in all this is the fact that I start Emacs at screen
start time (rather than a shell) via an entry in my .screenrc.  This
means the environment is effectively exported and explains why the
value of COLORTERM is picked up by Emacs.  If I allowed screen to fire
up a shell and then started Emacs from that shell, this problem would
never have reared its ugly head!
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