Mac OS X: colors in a terminal

[Kevin Rodgers]

The mac/INSTALL file says:

To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
~/.termcap and log in again.

-----
# added ANSI color
vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100:\
    :pa#64:Co#8:Sf=\E[3%dm:Sb=\E[4%dm:op=\E[m:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:\
    :do=^J:co#80:li#24:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:sf=2*\ED:\
    :le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A:\
    :ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m:\
    :md=2\E[1m:mr=2\E[7m:mb=2\E[5m:me=2\E[m:\
    :rf=/usr/share/tabset/vt100:\
    :rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h\E[;r\E[0m\E(B\E)B\E[2J:\
    :ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
    :ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:\
    :ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:pt:sr=2*\EM:vt#3:xn:\
    :sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:
-----

But on my platform (see below), starting Emacs from a Terminal with

        /usr/local/bin/emacs -Q -f list-colors-display

displays a *Colors* buffer with these entries even though I don't even
have a ~/.termcap file:

black                  black 
#000000
red                    red 
#cd0000
green                  green 
#00cd00
yellow                 yellow 
#cdcd00
blue                   blue 
#0000ee
magenta                magenta 
#cd00cd
cyan                   cyan 
#00cdcd
white                  white 
#e5e5e5

`C-h i' displays the *info* buffer with fontified text in colors,
and `M-x list-faces-display' displays colored faces as well.

Is the suggestion in mac/INSTALL obsolete altogether or does it just
need to be clarified?

In GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.9.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
 of 2007-04-25 on The-Rodgers-Computer.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.9
configured using `configure  '--enable-carbon-app''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC x r e p o r t TAB RET

Recent messages:
("/usr/local/bin/emacs" "-Q" "-f" "list-colors-display")
Loading encoded-kb...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading help-mode...done
Loading emacsbug...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading emacsbug...done


--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA