eterm-256color

This package uses xterm-color to add customizable 256 color support to term and ansi-term.

Usage

Add eterm-256color-mode to term-mode-hook:

(add-hook 'term-mode-hook #'eterm-256color-mode)

Enjoy more colors.

Notes

• This package requires eterm-color. If it doesn’t exist on your system, you will be offered the option of fetching and compiling it from emacs-mirror. If instead you want to install manually, you can try:
  • linux

    tic $(find /usr/share/emacs -name 'eterm-color.ti')
    # or
    tic -o ~/.terminfo $(find /usr/share/emacs -name 'eterm-color')
            

  • macOS

    tic $(find $(brew --prefix emacs)/ -name 'eterm-color.ti')
    # or
    tic -o ~/.terminfo $(find $(brew --prefix emacs-plus)/ -name 'eterm-color.ti')
    # or
    tic -o ~/.terminfo /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/etc/e/eterm-color.ti
            

• You may have to restart ansi-term the very first time you start it after installing this package and adding the hook above - it should “just work” any time after that.
• Make sure TERM really gets set to eterm-256color. It may be overridden if you export TERM in any of your shell init files.

Installation

This package is on melpa. If you have melpa in your package repositiories, you can use M-x RET package-install RET eterm-256color or install with use-package:

(use-package eterm-256color
  :ensure t)

Alternatively, consider installing with straight.el or quelpa-use-package.

Otherwise, download the files to somewhere in your load path, and require eterm-256color:

(require 'eterm-256color)

If installing manually, make sure the file eterm-256color.ti is in the same place as eterm-256color.el.

Customization

Bold

You can use the variable eterm-256color-disable-bold disable bold colors. When specified as bold, colors 0 - 7 will be rendered with their “bright” counterpart instead.

Faces

Each of the 256 faces is customizable:

Face	Alias	Default Value
eterm-256color-default		Inherited from default face
eterm-256color-black	eterm-256color-0	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-red	eterm-256color-1	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-green	eterm-256color-2	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-yellow	eterm-256color-3	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-blue	eterm-256color-4	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-magenta	eterm-256color-5	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-cyan	eterm-256color-6	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-white	eterm-256color-7	Inherited from xterm-color-names
eterm-256color-bright-black	eterm-256color-8	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-bright-red	eterm-256color-9	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-bright-green	eterm-256color-10	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-bright-yellot	eterm-256color-11	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-bright-blue	eterm-256color-12	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-bright-magenta	eterm-256color-13	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-bright-cyan	eterm-256color-14	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-bright-white	eterm-256color-15	Inherited from xterm-color-names-bright
eterm-256color-16 - eterm-256color-255		Generated by with xterm-color--256

Note that to customize the first 16 colors you can either customize the variables xterm-color-names and xterm-color-names-bright or customize the faces directly.