Mercurial > emacs
changeset 38054:fee34716d07c
More info about fixing problems with colors on a tty.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:04:55 +0000 |
| parents | 3e512ad7ce98 |
| children | 5b595b92482d |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Jun 15 09:42:36 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Jun 15 10:04:55 2001 +0000 @@ -103,7 +103,23 @@ entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within -Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) +Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system +uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is +"colors". + +In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for +``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal +back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not +use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry +doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape +sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make +it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op" +capability). + +Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which +attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability +incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting +this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps. Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal