Re: conditional font faces

[zwz <zhangweize@gmail.com>]

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> On 05/03/10 05:02 PM, zwz wrote:
>> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> On 04/03/10 05:57 PM, zwz wrote:
>>>> Not cutting to your problem but hope it helps a little.
>>>>
>>>> I work on tty quite much, and I have configured my emacs so that it
>>>> presents a similar view no matter windowed or no-windowed. I did this
>>>> based on the library "color-theme". And my consistent-theme is available
>>>> at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/zwz.
>>>
>>> I'm glad you posted this, your colour theme almost suits my needs. That was
>>> exactly what I was aiming for, a consistent scheme for both no-window and
>>> x-window and I much prefer the no-window scheme except for some like the
>>> minibuffer prompt. I think I will use your theme with minor modifications. :)
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> You are welcome. :)
>> I am happy that my work fits your need.
>> It takes me quite much time to figure out the theme that looks OK
>> (personally), as there are only 8 colors available on the tty (but I
>> don't know why, in fact I have enabled the framebuffer, and can watch
>> videos on the tty. I hope that someone can help me out on the problem.
>> If there are 256 colors, I think I can get a prettier theme easily).
>
> ... and I have a solution for you. Install the package ncurses-term (applicable
> for Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora and maybe others too but I'm not too sure). Then,
>
> $ export TERM=xterm-256color

Yes, in this way I could get 256 colors on xterm. But sometimes I work
on a tty (I mean I do not start X at all), and I want to have a
consistent view in such case. The weird problem I described is that I
can watch videos (which are colorful) but can not get the 256 colors on
the tty.

>
> and vallah! you have 256 colours on an xterm. ;) I will be waiting for your
> theme update very eagerly.