Len Trigg <
lenbok@...> writes:
> Hi there,
>
> I have xterm and rxvt set up for 256 colors, however when I start
> emacs -nw in these, list-colors-display shows 256 rows, but only the
> first 8 actually display with different colors, the rest are all shown
> in white. This seems like it is a bug in emacs (although these things
> can be tricky to pinpoint).
>
> I am fairly sure non-emacs factors have been set up OK. From the
> xterm/rxvt, if I run 256colors2.pl (found on the net), I get all the
> colors showing nicely, verifying that the terminals themselves are set
> for 256 colors. Running "tput colors" shows 256. My $TERM is
> xterm-256color.
>
> Is this a bug, or is there some configuration I am missing? (I am
> running emacs built from CVS a couple of weeks ago)
Do you have the header files for termcap or terminfo or ncurses installed?
What do you get if you do:
grep TERM emacs/src/config.h
