From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: add term files for xterm-88color and xterm-256color Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:37:33 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200409021917.i82JHBGK004358@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094161098 21010 80.91.224.253 (2 Sep 2004 21:38:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:38:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 23:37:52 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 1C2zHD-0007mb-00 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:37:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zMC-0001OD-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zM6-0001O8-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zM4-0001Nu-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2zM4-0001Nr-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C2zGz-0000Ob-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBF0B6A5C8; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:37:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu X-Yow: Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it! In-Reply-To: <200409021917.i82JHBGK004358@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:17:08 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:26739 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26739 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. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."