Re: Bug in 256 color terminal, colors > first 8 appear as white

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Len Trigg <address@hidden> 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