Re: rotating the palette (was: Re: Suggested font lock preferences for GNU Emacs)

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> The other problem, the Emacs shell not showing
> the colors of the shell function, which the
> Linux VTs and xterm etc. do, this turned out
> not a config issue after all: it is the same
> with 'emacs -Q'. Have a look:
>
>     http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figures/emacs/emacs-shell-colorless.png

The problem boils down to this, which doesn't
work in the Emacs shell but everywhere else:

    $ tput setaf 2 && echo green

There is no error message but the return code
is 1 (i.e., an error).

Perhaps tput cannot be used in dumb
terminals...?

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