On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:22 +0100, Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> wrote: > Hello Alexander, others, > > * Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@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.
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