From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TERM=xterm-256color but emacs=8color Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:13:20 +0200 Message-ID: <01c4f118$Blat.v2.2.2$6a109fc0@zahav.net.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104704187 19492 80.91.229.6 (2 Jan 2005 22:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 23:16:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClE1M-0003Q8-00 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:16:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClECT-0005do-VL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:27:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClECF-0005bm-5p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClECD-0005am-C5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:27:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClECD-0005ac-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:27:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ClE12-0003MR-Uu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-245-116.inter.net.il [83.130.245.116]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AEP24594 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:15:58 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: (message from kj on Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:57:22 +0000 (UTC)) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23100 > From: kj > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:57:22 +0000 (UTC) > > On my Debian Linux system I have the file > > /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color > > so I set TERM=xterm-256color and invoked emacs -nw, but when I > executed (list-colors-display) only 8 colors are shown. What version of Emacs is that? Only the development version (in CVS) has satisfactory support for Unix character terminals with more than 8 colors.