Re: terminal capability querying

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     One feature that I think would be useful and easy to implement would be
>     the ability to query what capabilities (e.g., underlining, boldface) are
>     supported when emacs is running on a tty.
> 
> Is there a way for Emacs to find this out?

The face code obviously has to know which features a terminal has (and
which escape sequences control them) in order to display any given
attribute.

I'm merely suggesting a way for lisp code to get this information.

-Miles
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