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

From: David Hansen
Subject: Re: TERM=xterm-256color but emacs=8color
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:11:27 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:57:22 +0000 (UTC) kj wrote:

> On my Debian Linux system I have the file
>
>   /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color
>
> so I set TERM=xterm-256color and invoked emacs -nw, but when I
> executed (list-colors-display) only 8 colors are shown.  What am
> I doing wrong?

Are you using debians xterm?  It's not compiled with 256 colors
support.

David
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