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How can I get Putty to support 256 colors in Emacs on CentOS?

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As far as I can tell from browsing around, I should be getting 256 colors in my Emacs, but I'm not. I'm running CentOS 5.4 on an ec2 instance. I'm running Putty 0.60 on Windows 7. Putty is set to send for its terminal string. Putty is set to allow 256 colors. On CentOS, my is set to . shows 256. I …

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xterm-256color

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The questioneer solved this: Turn on global font lock. Run an elisp script you can find on the emacswiki that "fills in" the color names, etc...

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