From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Len Trigg <lenbok@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in 256 color terminal, colors > first 8 appear as white
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:50:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807040150.m641oRo6002447@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hbzloyfomh.wl%len@netvalue.net.nz> (Len Trigg's message of "Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:02:14 +1200")
Len Trigg <lenbok@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi there,
>
> I have xterm and rxvt set up for 256 colors, however when I start
> emacs -nw in these, list-colors-display shows 256 rows, but only the
> first 8 actually display with different colors, the rest are all shown
> in white. This seems like it is a bug in emacs (although these things
> can be tricky to pinpoint).
>
> I am fairly sure non-emacs factors have been set up OK. From the
> xterm/rxvt, if I run 256colors2.pl (found on the net), I get all the
> colors showing nicely, verifying that the terminals themselves are set
> for 256 colors. Running "tput colors" shows 256. My $TERM is
> xterm-256color.
>
> Is this a bug, or is there some configuration I am missing? (I am
> running emacs built from CVS a couple of weeks ago)
Do you have the header files for termcap or terminfo or ncurses installed?
What do you get if you do:
grep TERM emacs/src/config.h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-04 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-04 1:02 Bug in 256 color terminal, colors > first 8 appear as white Len Trigg
2008-07-04 1:50 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-07-06 21:15 ` Len Trigg
2008-07-06 22:08 ` Len Trigg
2008-07-07 3:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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