From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:44:41 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Change "character terminal" to "text-only terminal". X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.101~286 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b82e13afea1ab6979c89b7f0124be495d73c340a;p=emacs.git Change "character terminal" to "text-only terminal". --- diff --git a/man/faq.texi b/man/faq.texi index 4938901d3ef..652a3b78841 100644 --- a/man/faq.texi +++ b/man/faq.texi @@ -1165,9 +1165,9 @@ modern GUI programs, and includes 3D widgets (used for the mode line and the scroll bars), a configurable and extensible toolbar, tooltips (a.k.a.@: balloon help), and other niceties. -@cindex Colors on character terminals +@cindex Colors on text-only terminals @cindex TTY colors -In addition, Emacs 21 supports faces on character terminals. This means +In addition, Emacs 21 supports faces on text-only terminals. This means that you can now have colors when you run Emacs on a GNU/Linux console and on @code{xterm} with @kbd{emacs -nw}. @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ interested in performing frequently requested, basic tasks. @cindex Console, colors As of Emacs 21.1, colors and faces are supported in non-windowed mode, -i.e.@: on Unix and GNU/Linux character terminals and consoles, and when +i.e.@: on Unix and GNU/Linux text-only terminals and consoles, and when invoked as @samp{emacs -nw} on X and MS-Windows. (Colors and faces were supported in the MS-DOS port since Emacs 19.29.) Emacs automatically detects color support at startup and uses it if available. If you think @@ -4809,7 +4809,7 @@ undesirable if you actually intend to use them. @cindex Eight-bit characters, displaying @inforef{Single-Byte Character Support, Single-byte Character Set -Support, emacs}. On a Unix, when Emacs runs on a character terminal +Support, emacs}. On a Unix, when Emacs runs on a text-only terminal display or is invoked with @samp{emacs -nw}, you typically need to use @code{set-terminal-coding-system} to tell Emacs what the terminal can display, even after setting the language environment; otherwise