From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: richard.banach@manchester.ac.uk (Richard Banach) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs -nw niggles Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:36:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20170829133613.9E0B8301033@cspc120.cs.man.ac.uk> References: <1eee8652-c5e5-6b4a-b0a8-197ac24dfee7@yandex.com> <20170829130409.D1106301033@cspc120.cs.man.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504013949 9990 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2017 13:39:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:39:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 Cc: marioxcc.MT@yandex.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tim.visher@gmail.com, richard.banach@manchester.ac.uk Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 15:39:04 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dmgj8-0001cd-MR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:38:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmgjF-0008JU-NH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmggo-0007Dr-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmggk-0004Ln-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from clarity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.144]:16304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmggj-0004Jf-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from cspc120.cs.man.ac.uk ([130.88.193.206]) by clarity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.85 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1dmggh-000CHx-VS; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:36:16 +0100 Original-Received: by cspc120.cs.man.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 4029) id 9E0B8301033; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:36:13 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 130.88.193.206 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: richard.banach@manchester.ac.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on clarity.mcc.ac.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 130.88.200.144 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114116 Archived-At: hi Tim, | `emacs -nw` is subject to the TERM settings of the terminal it's running | in. Depending on your distro that may be an 8 or 256 color variant. I'm | suspicious based on your descriptions that your TERM setting may have | changed recently. ok yes ......... but it wasn't that recent ... i've only just got round to trying to fix it | The 256 color default them of emacs is much more subtle | than the 8 color theme. i'm sure ... but with imperfect eyesight 'crude and brutal' works much better than 'subtle' for me :-) | You can see what your TERM setting is by `echo $TERM` and you can see how | many colors emacs thinks it can display by `M-x list-colors-display`. echo $TERM ... straightforwardly gives 'xterm' list-colors-display gives: black #000000 red #cd0000 green #00cd00 yellow #cdcd00 blue #0000ee magenta #cd00cd cyan #00cdcd white #e5e5e5 in effect, if i could change the 'cd's to 'ff's in the above (as picked up by the keyword bindings for latex), i'd most likely be quite happy ..... is there a way of achieving that in emacs itself? ... other TERMs are fine with the colours as is | FWIW, some terminals allow you to change the TERM setting to something else | if you'd prefer the 8 color variant. thanks richard.