Re: Multi-tty

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?

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