From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: add term files for xterm-88color and xterm-256color Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:08:38 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200409022208.i82M8gGK026262@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> References: <200409021917.i82JHBGK004358@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094162969 26004 80.91.224.253 (2 Sep 2004 22:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 03 00:09:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2zlg-0001WJ-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:09:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zqf-0000i6-W3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zqa-0000i0-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zqa-0000ho-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zqZ-0000hl-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.195.1.36] (helo=scanner2.ics.uci.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2zlS-0005Bo-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:09:06 -0400 Original-Received: from vino.ics.uci.edu (vino.ics.uci.edu [128.195.11.198]) by scanner2.ics.uci.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i82M8gGK026262; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-100, required 5, USER_IN_WHITELIST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26740 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26740 Andreas Schwab writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > One of the recommended ways to use the 88 or 256 color support in > > xterm is to set the TERM environment variable to xterm-88color or > > xterm-256color. Emacs cannot cope with this because it does not have > > the corresponding term files. term/xterm.el can deal with everything > > needed, it just needs to be loaded. > > Emacs already strips off -* from the terminal name if the full name does > not have its own file. OK, thanks. This was not working because of TERM was being set to dumb, after fixing that everything works.