From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs -nw, xterm and 256 colors [solved]
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:53:15 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <euhcgb$291v$1@agate.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1591.1175194608.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
[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. 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,
Ilya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-29 21:53 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 [this message]
2007-03-30 21:24 ` Martin Karlsson
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