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Setting up truecolor (24 bit color) in emacs in the terminal, under iTerm2, blink.sh, and others.
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| # sourcing this file will define a bash functions that | |
| # tries to run subsequent calls to emacs with 24 bit color. | |
| # | |
| # It sets TERM=xterm-emacs-leg if | |
| # - we've created a user-local terminfo record for xterm-emacs-leg, and | |
| # - we're using iTerm2 or something has set COLORTERM=truecolor | |
| # | |
| # This will cause emacs to use 24 bit color only when it will work, | |
| # inside or outside of tmux. I haven't found a way to auto-detect Blink.sh yet. | |
| # |