# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 984746681 0 # Node ID 654b53bab5836fc6d544e7ccb23c1c543fc4725e # Parent 13fd83760b06ad5394d7f75f4cd7b5499a61cb5f Change "character terminal" to "text-only terminal". diff -r 13fd83760b06 -r 654b53bab583 man/faq.texi --- a/man/faq.texi Fri Mar 16 12:42:51 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/faq.texi Fri Mar 16 12:44:41 2001 +0000 @@ -1165,9 +1165,9 @@ the scroll bars), a configurable and extensible toolbar, tooltips (a.k.a.@: balloon help), and other niceties. -@cindex Colors on character terminals +@cindex Colors on text-only terminals @cindex TTY colors -In addition, Emacs 21 supports faces on character terminals. This means +In addition, Emacs 21 supports faces on text-only terminals. This means that you can now have colors when you run Emacs on a GNU/Linux console and on @code{xterm} with @kbd{emacs -nw}. @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ @cindex Console, colors As of Emacs 21.1, colors and faces are supported in non-windowed mode, -i.e.@: on Unix and GNU/Linux character terminals and consoles, and when +i.e.@: on Unix and GNU/Linux text-only terminals and consoles, and when invoked as @samp{emacs -nw} on X and MS-Windows. (Colors and faces were supported in the MS-DOS port since Emacs 19.29.) Emacs automatically detects color support at startup and uses it if available. If you think @@ -4809,7 +4809,7 @@ @cindex Eight-bit characters, displaying @inforef{Single-Byte Character Support, Single-byte Character Set -Support, emacs}. On a Unix, when Emacs runs on a character terminal +Support, emacs}. On a Unix, when Emacs runs on a text-only terminal display or is invoked with @samp{emacs -nw}, you typically need to use @code{set-terminal-coding-system} to tell Emacs what the terminal can display, even after setting the language environment; otherwise