Emacs 256 colors not working using PuTTY and screen

Question

I'm having trouble getting 256 colors to work using emacs 23.1.1 connecting using PuTTY and screen. Server is running CentOS 5.6.

In my PuTTY config, my terminal-type string is set to xterm-256color. In my .screenrc I have term xterm-256color Once in screen tput colors gives me 256, echo $TERM gives me xterm-256color, but once I start emacs M-x list-colors-display only gives me 8 colors.

Not sure what the problem is.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I hit the same problem.

To fix this problem, just add this to ~/.bashrc (yes,I use bash)

# -----------
export TERM=xterm-256color
export TERMCAP=
# ------------

run screen and emacs in an screen window. it's ok now.

versions:

bash-4.2.45

emacs-24.3_10

Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06