Re: TERM=xterm-256color but emacs=8color

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:35:42 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> SUCCESS!!!  THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!  The problem was a bad termcap
> file.

That is usually the reason for such problems.

> Now I have a new problem.  The Emacs installation that I get from
> "make install" is MUCH larger than my ISP's measly disk quota will
> allow.  My ISP already provides a full Emacs 21.3.1 installation
> in /usr/local/share/emacs, so I was hoping to piggyback on that
> installation and only use from my CVS compile the emacs-21.3.50
> executable and whatever else it needs to support 256 colors.

Don't do that!  Mixing Lisp files and Emacs executable from different
versions is a bad idea: Lisp code calls primitives written in C and
compiled into the Emacs executable, and expects them to behave in
certain ways and produce certain results, but some of the primitives
in the newer Emacs behave differently.  You are in for a bumpy ride!

It's much better to remove every Lisp .el file that has a
corresponding .elc file, and also remove the source directories (src,
lib-src, lispintro, lispref, lwlib, man, and oldXMenu.  The CVS and
admin directories could also go away.  Perhaps after removing those
you will have enough disk space.  If not, tough.