Re: Colors on TTY (v26)

[Aleksey Midenkov]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 9:26 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 21:09:56 +0300
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> >  > I tried different terminal names. It seems, that it understands
> "xterm-" prefix. The remaining part can be
> >  > arbitrary: I literally tried "xterm-something" and it worked. I
> guess, there is no such file
> >  "xterm-something" in the
> >  > library. In any case, it's much better to rename terminal to
> "xterm-*", than deal with distributed files.
> >
> >  Just do "ls lisp/term/*.el" and see what you've got there.
> >
> > And?
>
> And you will see what names are supported without any need to guess.
> And if you want more details about how this works, I can suggest
> reading the section "Terminal-Specific Initialization" in the ELisp
> manual.


You could describe it briefly in the first place: same amount or less in
characters, but more benefit for readers.


>
>
>  What do you mean "should not exists"?  The code is there, it uses
> >  whatever knowledge it has when you call it.  Where you did call it, it
> >  didn't yet query the terminal to see how many colors it supports, and
> >  didn't set up their names.  IOW, you are shooting yourself in the foot
> >  by calling the function too early.  There are various hooks provided
> >  by startup.el which allow you to call this function when colors are
> >  set up; do that, and Bob's your uncle.
> >
> > You may call it anything you like, but this misleading behavior causes
> trouble.
>
> Yes, invoking code in .emacs which depends on stuff that gets set up
> during startup can get some using to.  It does make sense, eventually,
> though.
>
>

-- 
All the best,

Aleksey Midenkov
@midenok