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On 6/6/2009 3:43 PM, Mark Harig wrote:
> Here is an additional item related to terminal-mode Emacs that
> might be worth mentioning:
> 
>    A better display of colors, underlining, etc. can be obtained
>    in the terminal mode Emacs by making use of the terminfo file
>    that is included in the Emacs distribution:
> 
>        /usr/share/emacs/23.0.92/etc/e/eterm-color

I tried your suggestion and couldn't see that it improved anything.  My 
reading of the documentation is that eterm-color is intended to be used 
by emacs when it does terminal emulation via 'M-x term'.  See the info node

   (emacs)Top > Shell > Terminal emulator

Ken

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