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From: Josh Howard <jrh@zeppelin.net>
Subject: Re: emacs -nw, screen and 256 colors
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:43:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zn8ycyoi.fsf@dazed.zeppelin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u0z65zbu.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> (David Hansen's message of "Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:11:33 +0200")

David Hansen <usenetjunk.nospam@gmx.net> writes:

> and would like to use it with GNU screen and 256 colors.
> In a xterm without screen emacs can use 256 colors (shown
> by `list-colors-display') but when running in screen emacs
> shows only 8 colors (even the bold variants color8-color15
> doesn't seem to work).

It seems like there was a patch in a somewhat recent version of
screen which helped with 256 color support. Using screen 4.00.01 and
doing an export TERM=xterm-256color in the screen, to semi-override
the 'screen' termcap entry, I'm able to see all 256 colors without
needing to do anything else.

-- 
Josh Howard <jrh@zeppelin.net>

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-26 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-26 19:11 emacs -nw, screen and 256 colors David Hansen
2004-04-26 19:43 ` Josh Howard [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1767.1083008976.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-04-28  9:05   ` David Hansen
2004-04-28 16:27     ` Josh Howard

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