How do you apply a Emacs custom color theme in console mode?
colors, console, emacs
Solution
I am very late, but I had the same problem and I solved it adding the following line to my ~/.zshrc
export TERM=xterm-256color
If you are not using zsh (for example you are using bash), you must add it on your right console init file (for example ~/.bashrc)
Problem
When I load a custom color scheme (through M-x load-theme or M-x customize-theme) the results only seem to be applied when Emacs runs in a separate window: But when Emacs is run in a terminal with -nw, the default colors seem to be used: (source: raghav at www.ocf.berkeley.edu) I'm new to Emacs, so I don't know if this is expected behavior -- but it doesn't seem to be, since Googling turns up several people discussing using color themes in console mode. Any help would be much appreciated.