Hi there,
I connect to my account with SSH using PuTTy (version .58) on Windows. PuTTy supports 256 colors with the “xterm-256color” terminal type.
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PuTTY#toc1
I ran the scripts on the page below and saw output that verifies that my shell is able to display 256 colors:
http://thinkhole.org/wp/2006/05/10/howto-secure-firefox-and-im-with-putty/
The problem is that when I try to launch emacs with my TERM environment variable set to “xterm-256color”, I get the following error message:
emacs: Terminal type xterm-256color is not defined.
If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
use the Bourne shell command TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:setenv TERM …’) to specify the correct type. It may be necessary
to do unset TERMINFO' (C-shell:unsetenv TERMINFO’) as well.
I’ve looked all over for how to configure emacs to understand a 256 color terminal type but can not get any of them to work. Here are the three scripts that I tried:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PuTTY#toc3
http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/emacs-lisp/src/term/xterm-256color.el
http://nijino.homelinux.net/emacs/xmas-tty-faces256.el
Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Adam