From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Sullivan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 88 colors terminals Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:51:23 -0400 Message-ID: <87hcyx2zsk.fsf@ashbery.wjsullivan.net> References: <20060924095430.GA3283@globalterrasoft.ro> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159102920 16324 80.91.229.2 (24 Sep 2006 13:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 24 15:01:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRTcG-0004sG-8t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:01:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRTcF-0005ji-SR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRTbt-0005i8-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRTbr-0005h1-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRTbr-0005gl-MH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GRTg3-00040c-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GRTbk-0004mu-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.79.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:01:20 +0200 Original-Received: from john by dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:01:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b6ZfsXeVRBCiklFjZbIGxA8k3hE= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37589 Archived-At: "Alexandru E. Ungur" 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. -- -John Sullivan -http://www.wjsullivan.net -GPG Key: AE8600B6