From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using Emacs in fbterm. Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:43:30 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83czcjvtt2.fsf@gnu.org> <874jxu4zeg.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35095"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 21:44:18 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oSkgD-0008q0-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:44:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSkgC-0000Wf-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSkfW-0008Dq-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:44468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSkfV-0001IF-2X; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:43:34 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1661802210; bh=EXtU3V/WOlXvi7bd5haeMEnrlClOFEpv26boIdgJwZU=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=DHALk87VpNVEhjU6uM9Gqn+U7K1B8jgvPZEGFcTAQlrA/HBM/1yNoDFDUX5kt3wnf rmoKrSMN3jPxPQHkjtGy8hKp0dYbM/gbZyipazOTcBp2lLTmULi0H/pL7kHV7UAg4A 6lA8jchYUIRxmZRoHu0rmD3T3bdXqh1Nh7/aRtlAIC74CQmwTrbYfZuTCi8Fv55ClC l7t9yyWQuMQr8nOwpLC1XIpIAy3Q5F+e4CNQZn/aBut5+vVYXg+JJgs7Miu8NnboXK n4Osyg94S8KwwhpgFGMoaKPWhHUnc9cpoC1eMDF4vDo3z+oz4UJy5lwAPMCL2JNUqF 0WyWUfWzA7q+w== In-Reply-To: <874jxu4zeg.fsf@igel.home> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294306 Archived-At: >> Indeed, if I set TERM to fbterm I now see what you described. Perhaps >> Emacs doesn't know that TERM=fbterm means that only eight colors are >> available? > > infocmp says it has 256 colors, which makes sense for a framebuffer > based terminal. > I don't think so. It's framebuffer based indeed, so in theory it can support true (24 bit) colors. In practice, text-based rendering is limited to the eight standard colors.