How to apply a Emacs custom color theme in console mode

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When I load a custom color scheme (through M-x load-theme or M-x customize-theme) the results only seem to be applied when Emacs runs in a separate window:

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But when Emacs is run in a terminal with -nw, the default colors seem to be used:

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I'm new to Emacs, so I don't know if this is expected behavior — but it doesn't seem to be, since Googling turns up several people discussing using color themes in console mode. Any help would be much appreciated.

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I am very late, but I had the same problem and I solved it adding the following line to my ~/.zshrc

export TERM=xterm-256color

If you are not using zsh (for example you are using bash), you must add it on your right console init file (for example ~/.bashrc)

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Reset = "\x1b[0m"
Bright = "\x1b[1m"
Dim = "\x1b[2m"
Underscore = "\x1b[4m"
Blink = "\x1b[5m"
Reverse = "\x1b[7m"
Hidden = "\x1b[8m"

FgBlack = "\x1b[30m"
FgRed = "\x1b[31m"
FgGreen = "\x1b[32m"
FgYellow = "\x1b[33m"
FgBlue = "\x1b[34m"
FgMagenta = "\x1b[35m"
FgCyan = "\x1b[36m"
FgWhite = "\x1b[37m"

BgBlack = "\x1b[40m"
BgRed = "\x1b[41m"
BgGreen = "\x1b[42m"
BgYellow = "\x1b[43m"
BgBlue = "\x1b[44m"
BgMagenta = "\x1b[45m"
BgCyan = "\x1b[46m"
BgWhite = "\x1b[47m"

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For example, \x1b[31m is an escape sequence that will be intercepted by your terminal and instructs it to switch to the red color. In fact, \x1b is the code for the non-printable control character escape. Escape sequences dealing only with colors and styles are also known as ANSI escape code and are standardized, so therefore they (should) work on any platform.

Wikipedia has a nice comparison of how different terminals display colors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors

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