From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on framebuffer-enabled tty Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:42:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877h5xtxl8.fsf@gmail.com> <83hb51ftt4.fsf@gnu.org> <87aaas69bp.fsf@gmail.com> <8762lg60zo.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314610954 7743 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2011 09:42:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:42:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: zwz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 11:42:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QxyMN-0004k3-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:42:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QxyMN-00013o-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QxyMJ-00013Y-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:42:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QxyMI-0006Jl-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QxyMI-0006Jf-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QxyMI-0005k7-LW; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:42:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <8762lg60zo.fsf@gmail.com> (message from zwz on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:06:03 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143622 Archived-At: > From: zwz > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:06:03 +0800 > > When I set TERM=fbterm. "tput color" also reports 256; while in Emacs > list-color-display just shows 8 colors. The issue remains. Then please see the "Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm" entry in etc/PROBLEMS, it tells how Emacs detects the number of colors supported by the terminal. > > Also, which of the lisp/term/*.el files is being loaded by Emacs on > > startup for that terminal? > How can I tell which lisp/term/*.el is loaded? What does the following display? M-: (tty-type) RET Assuming this displays "SOMETHING", Emacs tries to load the file lisp/term/SOMETHING.el, if such a file is available.