From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 13:50:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245C11065673 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cv@gjunka.com) Received: from outbound-mail-155.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-155.bluehost.com [67.222.39.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEADE8FC21 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:50:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cv@gjunka.com) Received: (qmail 10267 invoked by uid 0); 27 Feb 2009 13:21:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host79.hostmonster.com) (74.220.207.79) by outboundproxy5.bluehost.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2009 13:21:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=gjunka.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=PFqZ0EU1TDc1sYei3uyFDOH5RVyWnnvMo6HqwyTvY07bwKklHiehvTSqtUChEcxwGpO1r4Z/BK852bk+pYG2q15sq/+sBoAewpEpmo1yPL92foPdt+s6E1It4TM4kGto; Received: from host-84-9-59-118.dslgb.com ([84.9.59.118] helo=[192.168.1.66]) by host79.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld2h5-0007GZ-4p for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:24:00 -0700 Message-ID: <49A7E97E.2090306@gjunka.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:24:14 +0000 From: Grzegorz Junka User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {630:host79.hostmonster.com:gjunkaco:gjunka.com} {sentby:smtp auth 84.9.59.118 authed with cv+gjunka.com} Subject: Emacs doesn't want to support 256 colors in terminal window X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:50:41 -0000 Hi, I hope someone will be able to help with this. I've already checked all resources I could google but still can't get it to work. Basically my terminal can show more than 16 colors but emacs doesn't want to use these colors. I run FreeBSD (7.1-RELEASE) as a virtual machine and use it without any X interface, only through ssh from a Windows machine (the host). I have set up both putty and ssh in cygwin to report term type as 'xterm-256color' (putty in the configuration window and xterm using -tn command line parameter). That part works fine because I can run scripts available on the internet (256colors2.pl, colortest), which surely show more than 8 colors in my terminal window. The problem is when I run emacs and type: M-x list-colors-display. Emacs shows only boring 8 colors (not even 16). A bit about my configuration. Emacs was compiled without X11 support (from ports emacs-nox11-22.3). I also don't have xterm installed. I tried to set env variable TERM=xterm-256color but it didn't help. There is a special note about using terms in emacs in "/usr/local/share/emacs/22.3/lisp/term/README" I unpacked xterm.el.gz from that folder and tried to supply it as term/xterm-256color.el or term/xterm.el to emacs, but that also didn't work. It is interesting to note, that when I type: tput color I get different values depending on the user and terminal: user grzesiu, putty, TERM=xterm-256color, tput colors: 114 the same user, putty and TERM value, but tput colors: 123, another trial and output is 80 user root, putty, TERM=xterm, tput colors: 184 the same user and putty, but TERM=xterm-256color, tput colors: 115 user grzesiu, ssh from cygwin, TERM=xterm-256color, tput colors: 139 I don't understand these values because when I run these scripts above I don't see any difference in colors shown (subjectively). In neither of these configurations emacs show more than 8 colors. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated. Regards GregJ