Re: termcap or terminfo

[Stanley Yao]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2003, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: Stanley Yao <yao@CS.Arizona.EDU>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:54:54 -0700
> >
> > How could I tell if my gnu emacs 21.3.1 is using termcap or terminfo?
> > How to check the value of system-uses-terminfo?
>
> Evaluate it, like so:
>
>        M-: system-uses-terminfo RET
>
> If it says "t", Emacs is using terminfo; otherwise, it is not.
>
Thanks a lot. It's using terminfo and now I got color syntax highlighting
in emacs. But there are only 8 colors available by checking ESC-x
list-colors-display and the colors are mostly dark. How can I get more
colors and more bright colors? I modified the color#8 entry in terminfo
into color#256. But it did not make any difference. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Stan