From b370b3b037ba30a789b97cf731ab22d47e741ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:56:06 +0000 Subject: Document that if $TERM says we are on xterm, the default background mode is light. --- man/cmdargs.texi | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/cmdargs.texi b/man/cmdargs.texi index dbc60e1d86..6bda286c92 100644 --- a/man/cmdargs.texi +++ b/man/cmdargs.texi @@ -397,11 +397,15 @@ Used by the @sc{gnus} package. @item SHELL The name of an interpreter used to parse and execute programs run from inside Emacs. +@cindex background mode, on @code{xterm} @item TERM The name of the terminal that Emacs is running on. The variable must be set unless Emacs is run in batch mode. On MS-DOS, it defaults to @samp{internal}, which specifies a built-in terminal emulation that -handles the machine's own display. +handles the machine's own display. If the value of @env{TERM} indicates +that Emacs runs in non-windowed mode from @code{xterm} or a similar +terminal emulator, the background mode defaults to @samp{light}, and +Emacs will choose colors that are appropriate for a light background. @item TERMCAP The name of the termcap library file describing how to program the terminal specified by the @env{TERM} variable. This defaults to -- cgit v1.2.3