From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs -nw, xterm and 256 colors [solved] Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <86vegmenzb.fsf@soeren.network.lan> <861wj8uljk.fsf@soeren.network.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175207989 26978 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2007 22:39:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 30 00:39:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HX3HT-0005BD-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:39:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HX3K5-0008Fc-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:42:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1175205195 74815 169.229.140.13 (29 Mar 2007 21:53:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:53:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146685 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:42290 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Martin Karlsson ], who wrote in article : > In other words, when i set my TERM to xterm-256color, xterm happily > obliges since it looks in terminfo. That only gives the actual xterm > access to all those nice colours though. Something is very wrong in your understanding. xterm has no idea what is the value of TERM in your application. Moreover, it does not "take" any access to colors; it PROVIDES these colors to applications which request them. Hope this helps, Ilya