From: David Hansen <usenetjunk.nospam@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: emacs -nw, screen and 256 colors
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:05:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wu40pj4k.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1767.1083008976.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:43:41 -0700 Josh Howard wrote:
> David Hansen <usenetjunk.nospam@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> and would like to use it with GNU screen and 256 colors.
>> In a xterm without screen emacs can use 256 colors (shown
>> by `list-colors-display') but when running in screen emacs
>> shows only 8 colors (even the bold variants color8-color15
>> doesn't seem to work).
>
> It seems like there was a patch in a somewhat recent version of
> screen which helped with 256 color support. Using screen 4.00.01 and
> doing an export TERM=xterm-256color in the screen, to semi-override
> the 'screen' termcap entry, I'm able to see all 256 colors without
> needing to do anything else.
TERM=xterm-256color looks nice. Bold is still screwed but
there are enough colors now for highlighting :)
-- David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-28 9:05 UTC|newest]
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2004-04-26 19:11 emacs -nw, screen and 256 colors David Hansen
2004-04-26 19:43 ` Josh Howard
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2004-04-28 9:05 ` David Hansen [this message]
2004-04-28 16:27 ` Josh Howard
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