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Subject: Re: newbie xterm color ?
From: Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com>
To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
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On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 11:05, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > 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.
OK, then what should TERM be for rxvt and xterm?

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