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> From: Stanley Yao <yao@CS.Arizona.EDU>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:23:34 -0700
> >
> But there are only 8 colors available by checking ESC-x
> list-colors-display and the colors are mostly dark. How can I get more
> colors and more bright colors? I modified the color#8 entry in terminfo
> into color#256. But it did not make any difference. Any suggestions?

I think you will need to wait for a future Emacs release.  The
development code supports 256-color xterm, but IIRC it is next to
impossible to get that in the currently released versions, even if you
frob tty-defined-color-alist to add the additional colors.