Date: 21 Feb 2002 20:25:17 +1200 From: Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, List FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: terminal color problems Message-ID: <1014279919.2517.84.camel@osiris.sigterm.com> In-Reply-To: <7vsn7v9vva.n7v@localhost.localdomain> References: <20020215213729.A3410@lymond.lvcablemodem.com> <20020218182502.GR418@roman.mobil.cz> <20020220194448.GD4350@dan.emsphone.com> <20020220230139.GS418@roman.mobil.cz> <20020220225749.GA31497@dan.emsphone.com> <7vsn7v9vva.n7v@localhost.localdomain>
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On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 18:44, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> writes: > > > Considering that xterm-color is simply > > > > xterm-color|xterm-co|xterm with ANSI colors:\ > > :pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:tc=xterm: > > > > (i.e. it's the xterm entry plus color codes) I can't imagine what would > > break. > > It's not as hard to imagine for those of us using > > xterm-xf86-v32|xterm terminal emulator (X Window System):\ > > which doesn't use "tc=". IIRC, I read in some XFree86 document that > that one should be used, but I might have just noticed it there and > thought it sounded better than "xterm" (with tc=vt220). Refer to http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html (the section is "What $TERM should I use?") for the reason for not using "xterm". > > But then all of these can cause problems when people expect you to be > using "cons25" like when I was complaining about a problem with "groff > -mandoc -Tascii /tmp/ipfw.8 | less" as suggested by the mdoc man page. > I got the impression that FreeBSD is "designed for cons25". Are you sure your problem with groff wasn't due to a broken termcap entry or the terminal not behaving as advertised? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com> "All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." -- Jane Wagner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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