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From: Martin Karlsson <qsvans@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs -nw, xterm and 256 colors [solved]
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:24:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hcs2v2zw.fsf@soeren.network.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: euhcgb$291v$1@agate.berkeley.edu

Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:

> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
> Martin Karlsson 
> <qsvans@gmail.com>], who wrote in article <mailman.1591.1175194608.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
>> In other words, when i set my TERM to xterm-256color, xterm happily
>> obliges since it looks in terminfo. That only gives the actual xterm
>> access to all those nice colours though.
>
> Something is very wrong in your understanding.

I'm not surprised, and that's why I began my post, from which you quote,
by saying: "First off, most of the following explanation is me guessing,
not hard facts." Apparently my guessing was way off.

> xterm has no idea what is the value of TERM in your application.
> Moreover, it does not "take" any access to colors; it PROVIDES these
> colors to applications which request them.
>
> Hope this helps,

It does. Thanks for the explanation. :)

Regards,
-- 
Martin Karlsson

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-30 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27 14:54 emacs -nw, xterm and 256 colors Martin Karlsson
2007-03-28 15:53 ` Leo
2007-03-29 12:22 ` emacs -nw, xterm and 256 colors [solved] Martin Karlsson
2007-03-29 13:01   ` Leo
2007-03-29 15:17     ` Martin Karlsson
2007-03-29 15:46       ` Leo
2007-03-29 18:54         ` Martin Karlsson
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1591.1175194608.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-03-29 21:53           ` Ilya Zakharevich
2007-03-30 21:24             ` Martin Karlsson [this message]

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