Hi,

     I am using putty to connect to a (Gentoo) server running text-mode  
emacs-22.50.  I found out a very strange thing:

*)  If I setup $TERM to be xterm, then there is only 16 colors available  
in emacs, but the bold face works fine.

*)  If $TERM is xterm-256color, then emacs-22 picks up 240 colors, which  
is great; but for some reason I don't know, it stops display bold face  
anymore.  I've compared the output of list-color-display and  
list-face-display many times for two different settings.

     So here is my question: is there a way to enable 256colors AND the  
bold face in the same time?  Where is the file which defines the control  
sequence of bold face for a specific term? I checked out xterm.el, it  
doesn't seem to have anything to do with bold face.  (It defines the  
color/keyboard behavior, however).

     Any suggestions?

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Rochester wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      I am using putty to connect to a (Gentoo) server running text-mode
> emacs-22.50.  I found out a very strange thing:
>
> *)  If I setup $TERM to be xterm, then there is only 16 colors available
> in emacs, but the bold face works fine.
>
> *)  If $TERM is xterm-256color, then emacs-22 picks up 240 colors, which
> is great; but for some reason I don't know, it stops display bold face
> anymore.  I've compared the output of list-color-display and
> list-face-display many times for two different settings.
>
>      So here is my question: is there a way to enable 256colors AND the
> bold face in the same time?  Where is the file which defines the control
> sequence of bold face for a specific term? I checked out xterm.el, it
> doesn't seem to have anything to do with bold face.  (It defines the
> color/keyboard behavior, however).

If you mean GNU Emacs 22 then ask in gnu.emacs.help.
It sounds like a bug in one of the two programs.

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:09:44 -0400, robert.thorpe@antenova.com  
<robert.thorpe@antenova.com> wrote:

>
> If you mean GNU Emacs 22 then ask in gnu.emacs.help.
> It sounds like a bug in one of the two programs.
>

Thank you for your reply.  After some tedious search, tt turned out to be  
a bug in the older version of libncurses.  I upgraded ncurses to v5.5 and  
the problem is gone.