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Suggest to use --color if the terminal capabilities lie.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:51:13 +0000
parents d397806da81a
children eb0beb585d7c
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon Jan 14 13:50:26 2002 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon Jan 14 13:51:13 2002 +0000
@@ -260,6 +260,11 @@
 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible
 emulator.
 
+Beginning with version 21.3, Emacs supports the --color command-line
+option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular
+modes for getting colors on a tty.  For example, --color=ansi8 sets up
+for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors.
+
 Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty.  The