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bug#48439: 28.0.50; Support for the Alacritty terminal emulator
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#48439: 28.0.50; Support for the Alacritty terminal emulator |
Date: |
Tue, 25 May 2021 22:40:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> OK, thanks. Then I guess Alacritty is indeed close enough to
> xterm-256color.
Since it's close enough, I've now applied Tassilo's patch.
> The only question I have is: does Alacritty offer any
> capabilities that are not in xterm-256color? Because if it does, then
> adding it to the list of aliases will prevent users from taking
> advantage of those additional capabilities, because AFAIU we use the
> alias without checking first whether the original terminal name has a
> library. So if Alacritty has important additional features, it might
> be better to prepare a separate alacritty.el file, using xterm.el as a
> starting point (or even 'require'ing it).
That's true -- but I guess we'll just have to wait and see whether
there's any request for supporting these additional features (if any).
If there is, removing the alias is easy enough.
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