From: zwz <zhangweize@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on framebuffer-enabled tty
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:05:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei03805d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4E5C0C35.7050300@harpegolden.net
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
> On 29/08/11 10:06, zwz wrote:
>
>> I made some mistake. The problem "tput color -> 256; Emacs -> 256 but
> in
>> fact 8" only happens when I set TERM=xterm-256color, which is not the
>> case since I am actually using fbterm.
>
> That was unlikely to work anyway, as the fbterm guys have apparenrtly
> chosen to use quite different escapes to xterm for 256 colors. I
> understand that they were seeking to retain compat with linux kernel vt,
> and the linux vt was already using that escape (for something fairly
> unimportant IIRC*), but since they are _not_ the linux vts and they
> _are_ a different terminal anyway, IMO they would have been better off
> using the same escapes as xterm (and everyone else) for 256 colors and
> just moving the linux vt one somewhere, but anyway. At the same time,
> they're probably "in the right" insofar as apps properly using terminfo
> should be able to cope with both.
>
> Emacs probably should be querying more from terminfo and hardcoding less
> (yeah yeah, "patches welcome", I know). In any case, right now, we
> probably do need a lisp/term/fbterm.el, and unfortunately it probably
> can't completely reuse the xterm.el code, unlike screen.el
Do you mean if there is a lisp/term/fbterm.el that deals with the
escapes, then it is possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on fbterm?
>
> * I remember looking at feasibility of a linux kernel patch for native
> 256-color vts on framebuffers years ago but my attention rapidly
> wandered...
This seems to be a better solution.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-28 14:33 Is it possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on framebuffer-enabled tty zwz
2011-08-28 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 6:06 ` zwz
2011-08-29 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 9:06 ` zwz
2011-08-29 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 22:01 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-08-30 14:05 ` zwz [this message]
2011-08-30 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-31 16:23 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2011-08-31 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-01 14:35 ` zwz
2011-09-01 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-01 14:28 ` zwz
2011-09-01 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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