More colors on Mac OS X

More colors on Mac OS X

[Matthew Calhoun]

Hello,

I'm using Mac OS 10.2.2 and the Emacs that came with it (21.1) in tcsh 
in the Terminal application. I'm attempting to use syntax coloring, 
with limited success.

I have this:

(global-font-lock-mode t)
(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)
(set-background-color "Black")
(set-foreground-color "White")
(set-cursor-color "White")
(custom-set-faces
'(font-lock-comment-face ((((class color) (background dark)) 
(:foreground "yellow"))))
...

in my .emacs file, and I've set my TERM environment variable to 
"xterm-color". Now I'm getting color, but the only colors available 
seem to be Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White. A 
call to list-colors-display confirms this. Does anyone have any advice 
on how to get more colors (without switching to XEmacs)?

Thanks,
Matt

Re: More colors on Mac OS X

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Matthew Calhoun wrote:

> in my .emacs file, and I've set my TERM environment variable to 
> "xterm-color". Now I'm getting color, but the only colors available 
> seem to be Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White. A 
> call to list-colors-display confirms this. Does anyone have any advice 
> on how to get more colors (without switching to XEmacs)?

How many more colors do you want to have, and what are they?

How many colors does a Mac terminal support, anyway?

In general, there are *.el files under lisp/term/ which have support 
specific to each type of terminal known to Emacs.  If the Mac terminal is 
similar to one of them, use it.  If it is sufficiently different from all 
of them, you could create a new file with Mac-specific support (in this 
case, please submit the results to the Emacs maintainers for inclusion in 
a future release).

Re: More colors on Mac OS X

[Edward Dodge]

Matthew Calhoun <calhounm@mac.com> writes:

> Does anyone have any advice on how to get more colors (without
> switching to XEmacs)?

Yeah... compile GNU EMACS for OSX by following the directions found
on Andrew Choi's "Emacs 21 for Mac OS X" home page:

http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/

Then download color-theme.el from somewhere and install it.  After
that, "M-x color-theme-select" to find a prefab color theme with faces
you like.  Get a long ways ahead in a short time.

-- 
Edward Dodge

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