On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:55 +0000, Grzegorz Junka <[email protected]> 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 :) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
