Hi Kyle, et al.,
Thanks for the constructive feedback. With your help, I first started
looking into my ncurses implementation. I cleaned things up best I
could and then downloaded and installed ncurses v5.6 compiled with 256
color support. That alone did not resolve my issue; but I do believe it
helped.
The rxvt terminfo file I was using came with my terminal emulator and
was supposed to support 256 colors, but it appears there is some issue
with that file. I tried setting my TERM var to xterm-256color. That
appears to have done the trick! I can now use the colorN technique to
access all 256 colors. I'm one happy camper :)
Thanks again for all the help.
--
Mun
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:42 PM PST, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
KW> On Monday, January 29 at 07:18 PM, quoth cga2000:
KW> >> As you can see, when parsing something like "color34", *col becomes
KW> >> 34, and is checked against the value of COLORS. COLORS is a value
KW> >> defined by ncurses and slang.
KW> >
KW> >Yes, but wouldn't these libraries obtain the value of COLORS from
KW> >the terminfo entry pointed to by the process's TERM environment
KW> >variable?
KW>
KW> Yes and no. If the library only supports up to 16 colors (for
KW> example), then it can accurately set COLORS for xterm, vt100, and
KW> xterm-16color, but not for xterm-256color.
KW>
KW> >But then .. where did this rxvt terminfo entry that specifies 256
KW> >colors come from .. ?? I thought that would be part of the curses
KW> >package and should therefore by in sync' with the librar{y|ies} .. ?
KW>
KW> Hmm, could be he hand-modified his own rxvt terminfo in an attempt to
KW> get 256 colors working. Other than that, I don't know. I *can* tell
KW> you that the default rxvt on Solaris doesn't do 256 colors, though.
KW>
KW> ~Kyle
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