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Document that if $TERM says we are on xterm, the default background

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mode is light.
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Eli Zaretskii 2000-10-28 18:56:06 +00:00
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@ -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