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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>
> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:57:22 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> 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 version of Emacs is that?  Only the development version (in CVS)
has satisfactory support for Unix character terminals with more than 8
colors.