Re: 88 colors terminals

[John Sullivan]

"Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@globalterrasoft.ro> writes:

> I have a question: I recently switched to urxvt as my terminal, and
> discovered it can actually use 88 colors. What is the best way to take
> advantage of this while using emacs in console? Are there any color
> themes that use more than 8 colors in terminals, if they have the chance
> to? I checked all the (50 I think) color themes that come with color-theme 
> package, but none of them seemed any different than from an 8 colors
> terminal.

The themes in color-theme do use more than 8 colors in terminals. Did you check
the output of M-x list-colors-display to make sure that things are set
properly?

Maybe your $TERM isn't set correctly. There is an actual proper way to do this,
but you can cheat and type "export TERM=xterm-88color" before starting emacs.

There's a screenshot of my color output as an example at
http://journal.wjsullivan.net/162004.html.

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