Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:17 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db Message-ID: <87fx7if3zy.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20091210124222.GA64905@hoeg.nl> (Ed Schouten's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:22 %2B0100") References: <86d42pjc1n.fsf@bifteki.lan> <20091209122532.2c55aa22@ernst.jennejohn.org> <86ws0w4c8e.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20091209123246.22b9ecc3@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20091210104430.1381356nnmx30okk@webmail.leidinger.net> <20091210124222.GA64905@hoeg.nl>
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--=-=-= On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:22 +0100, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: > Hello Alexander, others, > > * Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: >> The practical attitude should be coordinated with ed@ (CCed), as he >> switched the console in 9-current to be an xterm, and AFAIR it does >> not support as much colors as the real xterm. Maybe there is a >> reason to not update it. > > So the idea is to make TERM=xterm use 256 colors? Even though I think > having more colors would be awesome, I think many things would break. How about an "xterm" entry with 8 fg and 8 bg colors and a separate "xterm-256color" entry with 256 colors? I know, from our personal chat sessions, that the original drive behind Leonidas' patch to termcap was to make it possible for Emacs and vim to highlight/format code with more than 8 colors. This *is* useful for X11-based xterm windows but it may be less useful for vty terminals. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAksh3wcACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7ZROgCfc2YONQGOf/7kpfrHfnwqpenZ QrgAoL8zL5OkR7BuF179bMIgWzjUnjeI =vXnQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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