Re: Multi-tty

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  rpluim@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:49:02 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > 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.
>
> Why cannot those terminal have their terminfo entry set up with
> true-color support?

I don't know, you'd have to ask them.

> Anyway, as long as all of your client frames are on iTerm2, you should
> be fine.

Unless the support is removed, of course, which I hope it's not because
it's used in the wild.

And when you want to use an Emacs daemon, you also have to know that you
have to set COLORTERM for the daemon (iTerm2 for example does that
automatically in terminal windows but can't for a daemon of course), and
of course how to do it (tip: man launchd.plist). And then, you'll have
to remember to always use the right terminal emulator with the daemon,
while things just work with what I'm using now.

Quite unfortunate that all for "normal" users, IMO.