hi there, i am trying to make tmux use 256 colors.
i have found this: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org/msg707066.html i have done step 2: $ xterm $ echo TERM $ TERM=xterm-256color $ tput colors 256 but it is not clear to me how can i do step 1. what is the proper way to: "1) Set TERM=screen-256color inside so that applications INSIDE tmux know that it supports 256 colours, you can do this however you like but default-terminal is usually easiest." actually the man page states, somewhat misleadingly, that: The TERM environment variable must be set to ``screen'' for all programs running inside tmux. New windows will automatically have ``TERM=screen'' added to their environment, but care must be taken not to reset this in shell start-up files. what i have done in the end is to put TERM=screen-256color in my .kshrc that is referenced also by .profile's ENV but it doesn't feel 100% right. -f -- there are 10 types of people: those that do binary, and those that don't.
