Question

In my .emacs config file I have a following entry:

(custom-set-variables
  (custom-set-faces
    '(font-lock-comment-face ((((class color)
                                (min-colors 8)
                                (background dark))
                                (:foreground "red"))))))

This fixes the font color when TERM environment variable is set to screen, but breaks it when TERM is set to xterm. Is there a way to read value of TERM variable and execute that code only if TERM‘s value is screen? I found this questin slightly helpful, but still I don’t know how to read values of environment variables in elisp.

Answer 1

(when (string= (getenv "TERM") "screen")
    .... your code
)