# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 992599495 0
# Node ID fee34716d07c6b934c543fb46ee1a7d840a7b483
# Parent  3e512ad7ce9808ad7b098f1c1b98c4862deb1bd0
More info about fixing problems with colors on a tty.

diff -r 3e512ad7ce98 -r fee34716d07c etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Jun 15 09:42:36 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Jun 15 10:04:55 2001 +0000
@@ -103,7 +103,23 @@
 entry to specify that the display supports color.  Emacs looks at the
 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are
 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within
-Emacs.  (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.)
+Emacs.  (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.)  If your system
+uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is
+"colors".
+
+In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for
+``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal
+back to the default foreground and background colors.  Emacs will not
+use colors if this capability is not defined.  If your terminal entry
+doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape
+sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make
+it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op"
+capability).
+
+Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which
+attributes cannot be used with colors.  Setting this capability
+incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting
+this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps.
 
 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value
 of the environment variable TERM.  With `xterm', a common terminal