Re: TERM=xterm-256color but emacs=8color

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:06:50 +0100
> 
> Besides all: how do you think you could address the extra 248 colours? 

They have names (Emacs defines their names at startup).  You can list
those names by invoking "M-x list-colors-display RET".  Also, you can
use the standard X names, and Emacs will transparently find the
closest color from the 256-color set supported by xterm and use that
instead.