Re: termcap or terminfo

[Thomas Dickey]

Stanley Yao <yao@cs.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 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?

Changing the "color#" value is not going to help.

The shades of color are (almost always) set by external configuration
details (e.g., resource values for xterm).  Different terminal emulators
provide support for different numbers of colors - typically 8.  A few
allow 16.  XFree86 xterm does 8/16/88/256 (with appropriate terminfo,
and application that knows how to use it).

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