I was investigating why emacs -nw inside a M-x term terminal is shown as monochrome although the "eterm" terminal supports colors. It turns out that emacs decides no to use colors because the "op" terminfo property is not set for "eterm". term.el supports colors, 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 you please check it in? 2004-02-17 Dan Nicolaescu * e/eterm.ti: Add entry for op. e/eterm: Regenerate.