From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 01:12:14 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 6B503106566C for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BE78FC08 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl206-213.kln.forthnet.gr [79.103.19.213]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-6) with ESMTP id n1S0ZZLp017054 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:35:57 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1S0ZIXt005238; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:35:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n1S0ZGgm005237; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:35:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Grzegorz Junka References: <49A83FAB.8000307@gjunka.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:35:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <49A83FAB.8000307@gjunka.com> (Grzegorz Junka's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:55 +0000") Message-ID: <87sklzo0u4.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: n1S0ZZLp017054 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.051, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.35, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: "Paul B. Mahol" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:12:15 -0000 On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:55 +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > FreeBSD port doesn't allow to configure Emacs in any way, neither from > the original port, nor from the nox11 version. I don't think there is > any special option for emacs to show 256 colors. Wherever I could find > some information about this, people were saying that Emacs version > >= 22 supports 256 colors without any additional configuration. As I > mentioned, Emacs not only doesn't show 256 colors, but not even 16, > which I bet should be supported without any problems. No matter what I > get only 8 colors, even if terminal is able to shows much much more. > > Another strange thing is that as far as I can see xterm-256color in > FreeBSD termcap is simply an alias to xterm. Nevertheless, with these > scripts mentioned above I can view more than 16 colors even if TERM is > defined only as xterm. > > Do you think I should report it as a defect in emacs ports? It might be. I'll try to see if I can get Emacs to display 256 colors in an xterm, but in the mean time can you please collect all your recent findings in a problem report? It will be auto-assigned to me :)