From 35ea0cded20aac5fa40859a22b95979d15018c51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Peter <sharkdp@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:32:08 +0200
Subject: Set COLORTERM variable to advertise 24-bit support

Set `COLORTERM` to `truecolor` in order for applications to be able to
detect that alacritty supports 24-bit colors.

See https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 for more details.

Closes #1526.
---
 src/tty.rs | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/tty.rs b/src/tty.rs
index 4da11c0e..9f6a2e64 100644
--- a/src/tty.rs
+++ b/src/tty.rs
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ pub fn new<T: ToWinsize>(config: &Config, options: &Options, size: &T, window_id
     builder.env("SHELL", shell.program());
     builder.env("HOME", pw.dir);
     builder.env("TERM", "xterm-256color"); // default term until we can supply our own
+    builder.env("COLORTERM", "truecolor"); // advertise 24-bit support
     if let Some(window_id) = window_id {
         builder.env("WINDOWID", format!("{}", window_id));
     }
-- 
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