Re: emacs -nw, screen and 256 colors

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:43:41 -0700 Josh Howard wrote:

> 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.

TERM=xterm-256color looks nice.  Bold is still screwed but
there are enough colors now for highlighting :)

-- David