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| author | Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> | 2021-10-28 18:44:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2021-10-28 18:44:39 +0200 |
| commit | 9c95a4fa55a4b6956a16dee9144a68db571d7e2c (patch) | |
| tree | 192f499f1430de17fa7ee4216414c46212ea4135 /doc/emacs/misc.texi | |
| parent | 802e9b1b453506174c94f72c504fb4b83e85828e (diff) | |
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Make comint-term-environment connection-aware (bug#51426)
* lisp/comint.el (comint-term-environment): Make it connection-aware.
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (Shell Options): Document the above change, and
explain how this interacts with 'system-uses-terminfo'.
* etc/NEWS: Announce the above change.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs/misc.texi')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/misc.texi b/doc/emacs/misc.texi index 5123a716dcb..f66b69cdd73 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi @@ -1497,14 +1497,20 @@ directory stack if they are not already on it underlying shell, of course. @vindex comint-terminfo-terminal +@vindex system-uses-terminfo @vindex TERM@r{, environment variable, in sub-shell} Comint mode sets the @env{TERM} environment variable to a safe default value, but this value disables some useful features. For example, color is disabled in applications that use @env{TERM} to determine if color is supported. Therefore, Emacs provides an option -@code{comint-terminfo-terminal}, which you can set to a terminal that -is present in your system's terminfo database, in order to take -advantage of advanced features of that terminal. +@code{comint-terminfo-terminal} to let you choose a terminal with more +advanced features, as defined in your system's terminfo database. +Emacs will use this option as the value for @env{TERM} so long as +@code{system-uses-terminfo} is non-nil. + +Both @code{comint-terminfo-terminal} and @code{system-uses-terminfo} +can be declared as connection-local variables to adjust these options +to match what a remote system expects (@pxref{Connection Variables}). @node Terminal emulator @subsection Emacs Terminal Emulator |