Despite being an avid Emacs user, I usually start Emacs with a GUI interface. I used to start Emacs inside a terminal only when working on another computer using ssh.
Today I had 10 minutes of free time and I wondered if I could get Emacs themes working on my terminal.
A few Google searches and Stackoverflow helped me to find the solution:
- use a 256-colors supporting terminal;
- set the
TERMenvironment variable with the right value.
export TERM=xterm-256color
With this settings you can use your emacs theme (if it supports 256-color mode) in the console.