title: Can't enable 256 colors in ConEmu
body: <p>I'm trying to get 256 colors in the fantastic <a href="http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/" rel="noreferrer">ConEmu-Maximus5</a> console.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> Now it only shows 8 colors. I know because '$tput colors' output is '8'</p>
  
  <p>I have followed the <a href="http://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&amp;sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/wiki/AnsiEscapeCodes?show=content" rel="noreferrer">instructions</a> and activated:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>TrueMod (24-bit color) support</li>
  <li>Inject ConEmuHk</li>
  <li>ANSI x3.64 / xterm 256 colors</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I don't understand what to do with '<em>check off whether the buffer / slide.</em>'</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I'm in windows 7.</li>
  <li>I start ConEmu with a custom direct link, so it loads cygwin bash file.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <pre>
  "C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu64.exe" /cmd ""C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" --login -i"
  </pre>
  
  <ul>
  <li>In my bashrc profile I have -> export TERM=cygwin</li>
  <li>This is my custom command prompt:</li>
  </ul>
  
  <pre>
      function prompt {
  
      local RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
      local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
      local COOLRED="\e[38;5;173m"
      local COOLGREEN="\e[38;5;113m"
      PS1="$COOLRED\u@\h $LIGHT_COOLGREEN\$PWD \[\e[0m\] > "
  
      }
  
      prompt
  </pre>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The value of ConEmuANSI in ON, by the way.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have some screen shots:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/eOlP5.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>As you can see the command prompt looks very extravagant because it doesn't like the 256 color settings. If i substitute the variables COOLRED and COOLGREEN with RED and GREEN, then it looks ok, but it's not 256 colors.</p>
  
  <p>More screenshots of the settings:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XFACH.jpg" alt="enter image description here">
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ddQau.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>And the last sceen shot it's cygwin's mintty. Everything is ok there. Full 256 color supported. It's a shame mintty doesn't have tabs. That's mostly the reason why I'm trying to move to ConEmu.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1Tt7.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much for helping!!! </p>