Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:05:27 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie xterm color ? Message-ID: <20020220230527.GT418@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <15476.3916.761080.392914@guru.mired.org> References: <126563389@toto.iv> <15476.3916.761080.392914@guru.mired.org>
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> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:04:12 -0600
> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: newbie xterm color ?
> From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014671053.596fa9@mired.org>
>
> Dale Morris <dlm@well.com> types:
> > I'm having trouble finding how to make xterm display in color. I have
> > [setenv TERM=xterm-color] in my .tcshrc but that doesn't do the trick.
> > It's strange though, RXVT will display mutt in color, but XTERM won't,
> > from the command line both vim and mutt both display in color, but not
> > in xterm.
>
> You've got the setenv syntax wrong. RXVT works because it (presumably)
> sets the xterm type to xterm-color itself, whereas xterm proper
> doesn't.
rxvt doesn't set TERM to xterm-color. and xterm-color is incorrect
for rxvt just as it is incorrect for the Xfree86 xterm.
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