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changeset 42749:62c6ce7088f2
Document the new --color arg and tty-color-mode frame parameter.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:51:53 +0000 |
| parents | 0a6f6545e08f |
| children | 671f1c59f989 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Mon Jan 14 13:51:13 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Mon Jan 14 13:51:53 2002 +0000 @@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ * Changes in Emacs 21.3 +++ +** The new command-line option --color=MODE lets you specify a standard +mode for a tty color support. It is meant to be used on character +terminals whose capabilities are not set correctly in the terminal +database, or with terminal emulators which support colors, but don't +set the TERM environment variable to a name of a color-capable +terminal. "emacs --color" uses the same color commands as GNU `ls' +when invoked with "ls --color", so if your terminal can support colors +in "ls --color", it will support "emacs --color" as well. See the +user manual for the possible values of the MODE parameter. + ++++ ** Emacs can now be invoked in full-screen mode on a windowed display. When Emacs is invoked on a window system, the new command-line options @@ -315,6 +326,12 @@ * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.3 ++++ +** The new frame parameter `tty-color-mode' specifies the mode to use +for color support on character terminal frames. Its value can be a +number of colors to support, or a symbol. See the Emacs Lisp +Reference manual for more detailed documentation. + ** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough: Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes