Re: white is #e5e5e5

[Warren Harris]

Tassilo,

I tried using xterm-256color, but the entire window went into blink mode after 
starting emacs, the background was black instead of grey, and 
list-colors-display still shows white as e5e5e5. (There were 256 colors, fwiw.)

Warren


On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:56 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Warren Harris <warren@freelon.org> writes:
> 
> Hi Warren,
> 
>> TERM is set to xterm-color.
> 
> I'm not sure what that means in numbers of colors supported.  But with
> usual, modern terminal emulators (xterm, konsole, gnome or xfce
> terminal), a setting of xterm-256color should work fine and provide 256
> colors in emacs[client] in a TTY frame.
> 
> I have this in my shell init file, so that this is the default value for
> any xterm alike.
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> if [[ ${TERM} == "xterm" ]]; then
>    export TERM=xterm-256color
> fi
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo