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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Proper 24-bit TTY detection for Emacs 26.
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Proper 24-bit TTY detection for Emacs 26. |
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Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:59:26 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Rami Ylimäki <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:27:37 +0200
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> The "set[bf]24" capabilities are only supported by Emacs, because
> traditionally Terminfo hasn't offered any way to detect direct color
> support. This workaround forces users to compile their own TERMs with
> these capabilities.
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> Latest Terminfo provides several TERMs with "-direct" suffix, such as
> "xterm-direct", that support "RGB" with "seta[bf]". We definitely want
> to support this.
OK, thanks for explaining the situation.
> I can open a bug about this and post a patch that supports both methods
> on Emacs 27, since it's too late for 26.
Please do, and thanks.
> There might be some problems with Emacs 26 and TERM=xterm-direct, but I
> haven't properly investigated this yet. At least I already noticed some
> error messages from xterm.el:xterm-register-default-colors.
If there's a reasonable workaround for those problems, we could
perhaps describe it in etc/PROBLEMS for Emacs 26.