colorterms emulations

[Han Boetes]

Hello,

I asked a question on #emacs on freenode.net ( nice channel btw ) and I
got the following conversation.

22:22        Han| (trivial) Does anybody have a clue where I can set
                  the terminal colors for termulators in emacs. I
                  have my own scheme and I like it very much.
22:22        Han| http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/configs/dot-Xdefaults
22:44  kensanata| Han: terminal colors -- there is a variable for this.
22:45        Han| Easiest thing would be if emacs would read the
                  .Xdefaults.
22:45  kensanata| Han: emacs does read face definitions from xdefaults,
                  but terminal colors are in an array of color names,
                  not faces.
22:47  kensanata| hm.
22:47  kensanata| Han: reading term.el, it seems that the faces are
                  created using make-face and copy-face instead of
                  using the defface special form.
22:47  kensanata| you could report that as a bug...  i would
                  prefer defface...
22:48  kensanata| Han: example code fragment:
                  (set-face-foreground 'term-green "green")
22:48  kensanata| ugly...
22:49        Han| Perhaps there is a good (=portability) reason for
                  that?
22:49  kensanata| no.  this is old code.
22:49  kensanata| in your case, write a set of defface expressions,
                  and eval-after-load term...
22:49  kensanata| Han: the copyright line ends in 1995
22:50  kensanata| ugh.
22:50        Han| lol
22:51        Han| I don't what it al means but I'll send a polite
                  request to emacs-bugreport-something list.
22:51        Han| With a paste of this conversation.
22:52  kensanata| Han: do that.  :)

So he found some very old, outdated code. Perhaps somebody would like
to take a look at it.



# Han