From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 256 colors in ansi-term buffers Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:20:24 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337563514 31840 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2012 01:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 01:25:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 03:25:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHN3-00058u-2a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 03:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHN2-00015A-BC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:25:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e7Sy4X4O5dKI+JUJ9NBCYw"; logging-data="19216"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/PsPttfZJMp3+aWblP/tT" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8mbkImYPRdmAn6VmJ+BtEuqRuYA= sha1:h6wCtHiR8FsRKFIcweWmAJCvPqU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192505 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84910 Archived-At: > Looking at the definition of eterm-color it only advertises 8 colors, and > the code for term.el seems consistent with that, having only an 8 entry > color vector that can be remapped. In my application I need as close > to a real terminal as possible so eshell isn't an alternative. > Any suggestions? I guess you'll need to add the feature to one of the terminal emulators (either term.el or nterm.el). IOW, patches welcome, Stefan