emacs 256 colour support
emacs
Solution
Just testing on my Debian machine, I get the same as you (8 colours).
You don't say whether you are using an xterm, but in my xterm I have typed
export TERM=xterm-256color
and then `emacs -nw` followed by `list-colors-display` shows 256 colours.
Problem
I am using ubuntu 9.04 and GNU Emacs 22.2.1 I am using the terminal to load emacs i.e. `emacs -nw` However, I am only running in 8 colours. ``` M-X list-colors-display ``` Only displays 8 colours. In the terminal I run this command `tput colors` and I get 8 displayed How can I get full 256 colour support? Many thanks for any advice,