I was investigating why emacs -nw inside a M-x term is shown as monochrome although the "eterm" terminal supports colors. It turns out that emacs decides no to use because the "op" terminfo property is not set for "eterm". term.el supports this, see: ;;; Reset foreground ((eq parameter 39) So it seems that it would be good to add this fact to eterm's terminfo description. If this is OK, can somebody please check this in? 2004-02-17 Dan Nicolaescu * e/eterm.ti: Add entry for op. e/eterm: Regenerate.