From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Warren Harris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: white is #e5e5e5 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:29:19 -0800 Message-ID: References: <07807786-5346-4F06-8FAE-EF2BF97B0460@gmail.com> <55297C51-B5E1-4ED3-B87D-5F0F1770D168@freelon.org> <874o8xp56z.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295973487 30623 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2011 16:38:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 17:37:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Phlty-0002u3-LP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:37:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phlmq-0001cv-Bv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40134 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phlln-0001aT-70 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:29:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phllj-0004vQ-0p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:29:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:43610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phlli-0004vB-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: by ywj3 with SMTP id 3so2035303ywj.0 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:29:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer; bh=L8K0j4ortYUtxLaf+ltKyv29oq82vBj8ZdQirUNmHF8=; b=i0oRfE1A8n0buZlOwnRIcZP3qDs1XWRBx/uwwoMv3JGdp8Rzn+7HFevc8zLhdtYSqK 17DuVs4iPNCUyCbTDrfSPXhbjUR4wvbWrFoqJBT/zawVO5Ivpo1afJZ5N+63W8n7GC8N RT286i1+K+nlX9+XzKrDx71GslHMLr3jIpisk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=Y4wmnrGTybT4mtvuLvER/DsaM/DMe1S9NcXbehEv23wFKvA87pxWeFLL/oY7g6I6J5 NCXFUhtVD8XPHZJjyRBuh3PCMEqlRQnVUHTqxv7vI+Y3oXYjdr4lB/X6B7atF4owFZpR stkiXQDesusBdkdk1B6xzwx+zMYVEdW9CgB6w= Original-Received: by 10.100.164.10 with SMTP id m10mr4133733ane.59.1295972962323; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:29:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from dhcp-172-19-247-116.mtv.corp.google.com ([216.239.45.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c34sm17873900anc.10.2011.01.25.08.29.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:29:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <874o8xp56z.fsf@member.fsf.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78738 Archived-At: Tassilo, I tried using xterm-256color, but the entire window went into blink mode = after starting emacs, the background was black instead of grey, and = list-colors-display still shows white as e5e5e5. (There were 256 colors, = fwiw.) Warren On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:56 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Warren Harris writes: >=20 > Hi Warren, >=20 >> TERM is set to xterm-color. >=20 > I'm not sure what that means in numbers of colors supported. But with > usual, modern terminal emulators (xterm, konsole, gnome or xfce > terminal), a setting of xterm-256color should work fine and provide = 256 > colors in emacs[client] in a TTY frame. >=20 > I have this in my shell init file, so that this is the default value = for > any xterm alike. >=20 > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > if [[ ${TERM} =3D=3D "xterm" ]]; then > export TERM=3Dxterm-256color > fi > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >=20 > Bye, > Tassilo