Re: emacs -nw, screen and 256 colors

[Josh Howard]

David Hansen <usenetjunk.nospam@gmx.net> writes:

> and would like to use it with GNU screen and 256 colors.
> In a xterm without screen emacs can use 256 colors (shown
> by `list-colors-display') but when running in screen emacs
> shows only 8 colors (even the bold variants color8-color15
> doesn't seem to work).

It seems like there was a patch in a somewhat recent version of
screen which helped with 256 color support. Using screen 4.00.01 and
doing an export TERM=xterm-256color in the screen, to semi-override
the 'screen' termcap entry, I'm able to see all 256 colors without
needing to do anything else.

-- 
Josh Howard <jrh@zeppelin.net>