Re: TERM=xterm-256color but emacs=8color

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 04.01.2005 um 02:30 schrieb kj:

> In <mailman.10549.1104706035.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> "Eli 
> Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> * Are there any invocation flags required to bring up emacs with
> 256-color support?

--color MODE                    color mode for character terminals;
                                   MODE defaults to `auto', and can also
                                   be `never', `auto', `always',
                                   or a mode name like `ansi8'

>
> * Is there *anything else* that I need to do to get Emacs with
> 256-color support?

I don't know! And I either don't know whether --color works since I 
can't test it. Have you tried to ask the authors of the Elisp code?

> P.S.  It took an eternity to compile (make bookstrap) emacs.  Is
> there a quicker way?  All I need is:
>
>   * 256-color support
>   * support for programming modes (lisp, perl, c, etc.)
>   * e-shell
>   * mail mode and RMAIL
>   * lisp interaction mode

I never compile GNU Emacs from CVS. Usually I invoke configure. There 
you can say --without-x (or such) and then too every graphics support 
will be left out. Best, of course, is to invoke './configure --help' to 
see all  option and to deliberately set off what you don't need.

Besides all: how do you think you could address the extra 248 colours? 
In X11 (and in the carbonized versions) you're using the X11 names for 
colours, for ansi8 mode too there are names as in list-colors-display 
...

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