From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 05:56:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A381065670 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:56:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2D08FC12 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:56:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A20EB4741; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:28 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AD245303; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:28 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2CWm4uNhbN7k; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:28 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-229-194.home.otenet.gr [94.64.229.194]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE26B452FB; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:27 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBB5uQYC099703 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBB5uOFF099698; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ed Schouten In-Reply-To: <20091210124222.GA64905@hoeg.nl> (Ed Schouten's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:22 +0100") 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> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (berkeley-unix) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:56:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87fx7if3zy.fsf@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:56:30 -0000 --=-=-= On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:22 +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello Alexander, others, > > * Alexander Leidinger 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----- --=-=-=--