• eterm-256color [[https://melpa.org/#/eterm-256color][file:https://melpa.org/packages/eterm-256color-badge.svg]] [[https://stable.melpa.org/#/eterm-256color][file:https://stable.melpa.org/packages/eterm-256color-badge.svg]]

This package uses [[https://github.com/atomontage/xterm-color][xterm-color]] to add customizable 256 color support to term and ansi-term.

** Usage Add eterm-256color-mode to term-mode-hook: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (add-hook 'term-mode-hook #'eterm-256color-mode) #+end_src 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 [[https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs][emacs-mirror]]. If instead you want to install manually, you can try:
  • linux #+begin_src sh tic $(find /usr/share/emacs -name 'eterm-color.ti')

    or

    tic -o ~/.terminfo $(find /usr/share/emacs -name 'eterm-color') #+end_src
  • macOS #+BEGIN_SRC sh 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 #+END_SRC
• 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 [[https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package][use-package]]: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (use-package eterm-256color :ensure t) #+end_src

Alternatively, consider installing with [[https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el][straight.el]] or [[https://github.com/quelpa/quelpa-use-package][quelpa-use-package]].

Otherwise, download the files to somewhere in your load path, and require eterm-256color: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (require 'eterm-256color) #+end_src

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.