Re: Emacs 256 color support.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Josh Howard <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:39:41 -0700
> 
> It was suggested I take this conversation here. Basically, I'm trying
> to get 256 color support to work in Emacs 21.3.50.2, with little luck
> so far.  I don't really know if this is an issue with any other
> version of Emacs, which is why I hesitated in bringing it up as a bug.
> At any rate, with TERM set to xterm-color and otherwise being able to 
> view 256 colors in an xterm, Emacs doesn't seem to be able to display
> them all.

Since no one responded, I guess no one else is having this problem.

So how about if you try to debug this?  The place to start would be to
step with a debugger into the function term_init (defined on term.c)
and see what value it assigns to the variable TN_max_colors, and why.