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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-12-15 11:45:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-12-15 11:45:22 +0200 |
| commit | 12ad276d1586b2fe3cff9620538e2542773bc0f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5184e8f0f710780e385d730205901695de52f443 /doc/emacs/misc.texi | |
| parent | 8ed529f0f300487600ac49cff22cce09c45db94b (diff) | |
| download | emacs-12ad276d1586b2fe3cff9620538e2542773bc0f1.tar.gz | |
Improve documentation of TERM environment variable
* doc/emacs/trouble.texi (Checklist):
* doc/emacs/building.texi (Compilation Shell):
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (Shell Options): Improve indexing of TERM.
* doc/emacs/building.texi (Compilation Shell): Mention
'comint-terminfo-terminal' in conjunction with the TERM value.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs/misc.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/misc.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/misc.texi b/doc/emacs/misc.texi index b6b396af8f5..e4be004ae52 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi @@ -1397,9 +1397,10 @@ directory stack if they are not already on it underlying shell, of course. @vindex comint-terminfo-terminal +@vindex TERM, 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 for applications that use @env{TERM} to determine if +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 |