Suggest to use --color if the terminal capabilities lie.

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Eli Zaretskii 2002-01-14 13:51:13 +00:00
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@ -260,6 +260,11 @@ entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to
`xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible
emulator.
Beginning with version 21.3, Emacs supports the --color command-line
option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular
modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up
for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors.
Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The