Re: Multi-tty

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  rpluim@gmail.com,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:16:05 +0100
>> 
>> I wouldn't try to "fix" the general handling of environment variables,
>> if that's even possible, which I kind of doubt as you do, I think. I'd
>> just replace the getenv("COLORTERM") with some lookup of COLORTERM in
>> what emacsclient sent to the server.
>
> I have another suggestion: remove the support for COLORTERM entirely,
> or at least announce that it is not supported per-terminal.  It's high
> time terminals that support true color have their terminfo entries
> fixed and up-to-date.  We supported COLORTERM during the transition
> period, as a temporary kludge, to help people who had those terminals,
> but whose terminfo DB did not yet catch up, but we should slowly move
> towards removing that support from Emacs.

COLORTERM is used right now by popular programs (e.g. iTerm2) on my
system (macOS). So doing that is not an option for me.