88 colors terminals

88 colors terminals

[Alexandru E. Ungur]

Hi all,

I'm pretty newbie to Emacs, but very happy to finally take the step and
try to learn it :)

I have a question: I recently switched to urxvt as my terminal, and
discovered it can actually use 88 colors. What is the best way to take
advantage of this while using emacs in console? Are there any color
themes that use more than 8 colors in terminals, if they have the chance
to? I checked all the (50 I think) color themes that come with color-theme 
package, but none of them seemed any different than from an 8 colors
terminal.

Thank you,
and have a nice day everyone,
Alex

Re: 88 colors terminals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:54:30 +0300
> From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@globalterrasoft.ro>
> 
> I have a question: I recently switched to urxvt as my terminal, and
> discovered it can actually use 88 colors. What is the best way to take
> advantage of this while using emacs in console?

The best way to take advantage of that is to install the CVS version
of Emacs, which already automagically supports 88-color and 256-color
terminals.

Re: 88 colors terminals

[John Sullivan]

"Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@globalterrasoft.ro> writes:

> I have a question: I recently switched to urxvt as my terminal, and
> discovered it can actually use 88 colors. What is the best way to take
> advantage of this while using emacs in console? Are there any color
> themes that use more than 8 colors in terminals, if they have the chance
> to? I checked all the (50 I think) color themes that come with color-theme 
> package, but none of them seemed any different than from an 8 colors
> terminal.

The themes in color-theme do use more than 8 colors in terminals. Did you check
the output of M-x list-colors-display to make sure that things are set
properly?

Maybe your $TERM isn't set correctly. There is an actual proper way to do this,
but you can cheat and type "export TERM=xterm-88color" before starting emacs.

There's a screenshot of my color output as an example at
http://journal.wjsullivan.net/162004.html.

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-John Sullivan
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Re: Re: 88 colors terminals

[Alexandru E. Ungur]

>>> sender: "John Sullivan" date: "Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 08:51:23AM -0400" <<<EOQ
> "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@globalterrasoft.ro> writes:
> 
> > I have a question: I recently switched to urxvt as my terminal, and
> > discovered it can actually use 88 colors. What is the best way to take
> > advantage of this while using emacs in console? Are there any color
> > themes that use more than 8 colors in terminals, if they have the chance
> > to? I checked all the (50 I think) color themes that come with color-theme 
> > package, but none of them seemed any different than from an 8 colors
> > terminal.
> 
> The themes in color-theme do use more than 8 colors in terminals. Did you check
> the output of M-x list-colors-display to make sure that things are set
> properly?
> 
> Maybe your $TERM isn't set correctly. There is an actual proper way to do this,
> but you can cheat and type "export TERM=xterm-88color" before starting emacs.
> 
> There's a screenshot of my color output as an example at
> http://journal.wjsullivan.net/162004.html.

Thank you all for replies. I should have mentioned that I am using the
latest emacs from CVS, just compiled it yesterday, and
list-colors-display does show me all the 88 colors just fine. All that
part is ok. I just wasn't sure how I can actually benefit from them...

Thanks again,
Have a lovely Sunday,
Alex

Re: 88 colors terminals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:27:20 +0300
> From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@globalterrasoft.ro>
> 
> Thank you all for replies. I should have mentioned that I am using the
> latest emacs from CVS, just compiled it yesterday, and
> list-colors-display does show me all the 88 colors just fine. All that
> part is ok. I just wasn't sure how I can actually benefit from them...

You are already benefiting from that: Emacs automatically defines the
colors of the various faces in the best way given the 88 colors it can
work with.

Re: 88 colors terminals

[Alexandru E. Ungur]

>>> sender: "Eli Zaretskii" date: "Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:11:54AM +0300" <<<EOQ
> You are already benefiting from that: Emacs automatically defines the
> colors of the various faces in the best way given the 88 colors it can
> work with.
Ah, great then :)
Thank you very much for your explanation.

Have a nice day everyone,
Alex