From 7ffcba4213786569954bbdd9b7d7aa741b5014c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 19:19:01 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/PROBLEMS: Problems with Alacritty and Emoji. (Bug#56952) --- etc/PROBLEMS | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index c0b44008e92..2a82995c994 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2170,8 +2170,23 @@ terminals display them as 1-column glyphs. Again, this causes cursor addressing to get out of sync and eventually messes up the display. One possible workaround for problems caused by character composition -is to turn off 'auto-composition-mode' on Kitty terminals. +is to turn off 'auto-composition-mode' on Kitty terminals, e.g. by +customizing the 'auto-composition-mode' variable to have as value a +string that the 'tty-type' function returns on those terminals. +*** Display artifacts on the Alacritty text terminal + +This terminal is known to cause problems with Emoji sequences: when +displaying them, the Emacs text-mode frame could show gaps and other +visual artifacts. + +The solution is to disable 'auto-composition-mode' on these +terminals, for example, like this: + + (setq auto-composition-mode "alacritty") + +This disables 'auto-composition-mode' on frames that display on +terminals of this type. * Runtime problems specific to individual Unix variants -- 2.39.2