Re: [Lynx-dev] Color in an Emacs terminal emulator (eterm)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Bryan Henderson wrote:

> Looks like we got it.  I removed the "el1" capability from eterm and
> everything looks fine.
>
> I'm guessing most of these fancy capabilities are aimed at speeding
> up terminals working over slow serial lines, right?  So there's probably
> nothing to be gained from a working el1?

right (not in Linux console certainly)

> I will report this to the emacs group (but I'm not sure anyone is
> maintaining Emacs; the last bug report I sent generated no response).

I recall seeing noise on one of the newsgroups, but nothing substantial.

> Also, I believe it was a mistake by Emacs developers to use the same
> name 'eterm' for the new Emacs Release 21 color terminal as for the
> old black and white one.  The emacs strategy is to have an entirely
> different terminfo database for "term" mode (one with only the one
> terminal type in it), so it doesn't matter.  But still.

True - I would simply add it as eterm-color (making a note to sometime 
install a current Emacs and see if I can test this myself).

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