Re: xterm-256color and face colors

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:18:22 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:51:33 -0800 (PST), Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>>Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:
>>> The version of Emacs I am currently running is ``GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1
>>> (i386-unknown-freebsd9.0, GTK+ Version 2.18.4) of 2009-12-11 on kobe'',
>>> built from a Git snapshot a couple of days ago.
>>>
>>> A recent update to FreeBSD synchronized our termcap database entries for
>>> "xterm*" terminals with the one in xterm's source distribution.  This
>>> was the first step towards making Emacs really support more than 8 color
>>> cells in xterm windows under FreeBSD.
>>> ...
>>> Trying `M-x customize-face RET font-lock-string-face RET' shows that
>>> strings should be using "LightSalmon" as their color, but the sample
>>> text near the color definition uses no color at all.  The screenshot
>>> attached as "emacs-23-xterm-256color-string-face.png" shows this,
>>> and is also available online at:
>>>
>>>   
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/emacs-xterm256/emacs-23-xterm-256color-string-face.png
>>
>> This looks like a problem with xterm or the termcap/terminfo settings.  Emacs
>> things that there are 256 colors, but when it tries to use them they
>> don't work correctly.
>>
>> Check if xterm is compiled with 256 colors support, there's a script in
>> the xterm sources called 256colors2.pl, run it and see if you can get
>> many colors displayed.
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks!  Running the vttests/256colors.pl script from the source of
> xterm itself shows that indeed this is an xterm problem with my local
> xterm package.  I'll rebuild my xterm with the WITH_256_COLOR=1 option,
> check again and report back :)

Ok, that was the cause of the face problems.  Rebuilding xterm with the
256-color option fixed everything.  Thanks again.