From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TERM=xterm-256color but emacs=8color Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: References: <5AC732E6-5CF2-11D9-8DD1-000D932A32C4@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104802433 20734 80.91.229.6 (4 Jan 2005 01:33:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 02:33:45 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 1CldZw-0007sB-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 02:33:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cldl7-0001kM-GQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:45:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1104802231 15442 166.84.1.3 (4 Jan 2005 01:30:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:30:31 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127660 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:23127 In "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> From: Peter Dyballa >> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:13:15 +0100 >> >> Emacs can't display more than the 8 ANSI colours. >The CVS codebase does support more (support for 16-, 88-, and >256-color xterms and rxvt is builtin, and other multicolor terminals >can be added by the end user using the infrastructure). Well, I just compiled emacs from the CVS codebase, but when I run *this* emacs -nw on an xterm that I *know* (thanks to vttest/dynamic.sh) supports more than 8 colors, *still* list-colors-display shows only 8 colors. I also tried setting TERM to xterm-256color and infocmp -C xterm-256 > ~/.termcap. This was even worse; the resulting emacs -nw was strictly black and white. * Are any special configuration options/compilation flags required for 256-color support? (I sure hope not, because it took a LIFETIME to compile this mother). * Are there any invocation flags required to bring up emacs with 256-color support? * Is there *anything else* that I need to do to get Emacs with 256-color support? Thanks! kj 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 The smallest emacs that will give all of the above would be ideal. -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.