Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:35:15 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Grzegorz Junka <cv@gjunka.com> Cc: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't want to support 256 colors in terminal window Message-ID: <87sklzo0u4.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <49A83FAB.8000307@gjunka.com> (Grzegorz Junka's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:55 %2B0000") References: <49A83FAB.8000307@gjunka.com>
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:55 +0000, Grzegorz Junka <cv@gjunka.com> 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 :)
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