From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TERM=xterm-256color but emacs=8color Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:13:15 +0100 Message-ID: <5AC732E6-5CF2-11D9-8DD1-000D932A32C4@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104693239 20557 80.91.229.6 (2 Jan 2005 19:13:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 20:13:53 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 1ClBAl-0003Oj-00 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:13:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClBLs-0007oR-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClBLi-0007nT-70 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClBLh-0007mb-0i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClBLg-0007mR-Ta for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.97.50.131] (helo=mout0.freenet.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1ClBAH-0007D3-Is for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.97.55.191] (helo=mx7.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1ClBAG-0003WH-L4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:13:20 +0100 Original-Received: from db9c3.d.pppool.de ([80.184.185.195] helo=[192.168.1.2]) by mx7.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID peter_dyballa@freenet.de) (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43 #13) id 1ClBAG-0006RQ-Gv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:13:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) 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:23098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23098 Am 02.01.2005 um 15:57 schrieb kj: > so I set TERM=xterm-256color and invoked emacs -nw, but when I > executed (list-colors-display) only 8 colors are shown. What am > I doing wrong? Imagining. Emacs can't display more than the 8 ANSI colours. There are these ANSI Esc sequences to change these colours and to intensify/high light them. If your terminal supports more than then the 8 ANSI colours you could teach it to Emacs -- maybe there is already an augmented Elisp file. Remember that a terminal is no graphics application! It's a whatever hardware terminal emulation. GNU Emacs too sticks to this definition. -- Greetings Pete If all else fails read the instructions. - Donald Knuth