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master 7a70900 2/2: Documentation followup to the last change
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
master 7a70900 2/2: Documentation followup to the last change |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 04:32:00 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit 7a7090029437ae7981d3bba9722bdc8f4695fed3
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Documentation followup to the last change
* doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi (General Variables):
* etc/NEWS: Document the COLORTERM environment variable.
(Bug#41846)
---
doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi | 9 ++++++++-
etc/NEWS | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi b/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi
index 2c13116..3dd1fe9 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi
@@ -495,7 +495,14 @@ variables to be set, but it uses their values if they are
set.
@item CDPATH
@vindex CDPATH@r{, environment variable}
Used by the @code{cd} command to search for the directory you specify,
-when you specify a relative directory,
+when you specify a relative directory.
+@item COLORTERM
+@vindex COLORTERM@r{, environment variable}
+If this variable is set to the value @samp{truecolor}, it tells Emacs
+to use 24-bit true color on text-mode displays even if the terminfo
+database is not installed. Emacs will use built-in commands to
+request true color by RGB values instead of the missing terminfo
+information.
@item DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
@vindex DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS@r{, environment variable}
Used by D-Bus when Emacs is compiled with it. Usually, there is no
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 4c93e31..5a46e71 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ It was declared obsolete in Emacs 27.1.
* Startup Changes in Emacs 28.1
+** Emacs can support 24-bit color TTY without terminfo database.
+If your text-mode terminal supports 24-bit true color, but your system
+lacks the terminfo database, you can instruct Emacs to support 24-bit
+true color by setting COLORTERM=truecolor in the environment. This is
+useful on systems such as FreeBSD which ships only with 'etc/termcap'.
+
* Changes in Emacs 28.1