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* doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi (General Variables):
* etc/NEWS: Document the COLORTERM environment variable.
(Bug#41846)
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Eli Zaretskii 2020-06-20 11:31:19 +03:00
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@ -495,7 +495,14 @@ variables to be set, but it uses their values if they are set.
@item CDPATH
@vindex CDPATH@r{, environment variable}
Used by the @code{cd} command to search for the directory you specify,
when you specify a relative directory,
when you specify a relative directory.
@item COLORTERM
@vindex COLORTERM@r{, environment variable}
If this variable is set to the value @samp{truecolor}, it tells Emacs
to use 24-bit true color on text-mode displays even if the terminfo
database is not installed. Emacs will use built-in commands to
request true color by RGB values instead of the missing terminfo
information.
@item DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
@vindex DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS@r{, environment variable}
Used by D-Bus when Emacs is compiled with it. Usually, there is no

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@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ It was declared obsolete in Emacs 27.1.
* Startup Changes in Emacs 28.1
** Emacs can support 24-bit color TTY without terminfo database.
If your text-mode terminal supports 24-bit true color, but your system
lacks the terminfo database, you can instruct Emacs to support 24-bit
true color by setting COLORTERM=truecolor in the environment. This is
useful on systems such as FreeBSD which ships only with 'etc/termcap'.
* Changes in Emacs 28.1