Re: termcap or terminfo

[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Eli Zaretskii
<eliz@elta.co.il>], who wrote in article 
<mailman.715.1059569231.8231.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
> > Now I stick to the 8 color. But I am trying to change them a bit
> > brighter, because they are now very dark and difficult to be seen on the
> > screen (expecially the blue color).
> > I guess I need to configure the terminfo to change the palette, right?
> 
> If this is on xterm or some other terminal emulator, a much easier way
> is to configure the emulator to use different colors for the 8 defined
> color names.

FYI: I use this (but with light background):

*VT100*colorMode: on
*VT100*boldColors: on
*VT100*dynamicColors: on

! Uncomment this use color for underline attribute
!*VT100*colorULMode: on
!*VT100*underLine: off

*VT100*colorBDMode: on

*VT100*color0: black
*VT100*color1: red3
*VT100*color2: green3
*VT100*color3: yellow3
*VT100*color4: blue3
*VT100*color5: magenta3
*VT100*color6: cyan3
*VT100*color7: white
*VT100*color8: gray30
*VT100*color9: red
*VT100*color10: green
!*VT100*color11: yellow
*VT100*color11: goldenrod
*VT100*color12: blue
*VT100*color13: magenta
*VT100*color14: cyan
*VT100*color15: gray90
*VT100*colorUL: goldenrod
*VT100*colorBD: blue

Hope this helps,
Ilya

P.S.  Probably

  xrdb -merge NameOfFileWithThisSettings

is enough to change the colors for the future xterm's.