emacscolorsterminalansi-escapeansi-term

Modifying ansi-term colors in Emacs

The text in the red ellipse below is hard to read

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When I inspect the face with C-u C-x = (what face) I see the following:

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So I went to update the face term-bold (see below), but the color doesn't seem to match what I actually got on the screen above (it should be blue+yellow according to the face definition). Any thoughts?

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Solution

  • Emacs uses its own terminal colors to render ansi color codes. You can change the appearance of the face that you are referring to by changing two faces:

    For example, changing the foreground property of the face term-color-yellow to yellow3, and the background property of the face term-color-blue to dark-blueresults in the following appearance:

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    which is more readable than the face in the original post and resembles the traditional appearance of the blue and yellow terminal colors.