* ara.t.howard on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 at 11:33:41 -0600 > On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:22 AM, cga2000 wrote: >> IIRC .. you first need to have a version of screen that supports 256 >> colors _and_ specify --enable-colors256 when you ./configure it prior >> to compile. > > right. the Portfile on OSX does indeed specify this option to configure > >> Another thing is that you are going to need to have screen point to a >> terminfo entry that supports 256 colors. >> >> I do the latter with the following .screenrc statement: >> >> term "screen-256color-bce" > > how odd, with that in my .screenrc i get the following error on startup: > > "TERMCAP", line 20, col 1, terminal 'screen-256color-bce': Illegal > character (expected alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - ^J
AFAIR ncurses shipped with MacOS X is an old version that doesn't have a screen-256color entry. What gives: $ infocmp screen-256color If you get an error, the cleanest solution is to install a recent ncurses version (fink's is not new enough either, don't know about MacPorts). c -- __ _ _ _ __ _ _ \ \ | |__| |__ _ __| |_\ \| |_ _ _ __ _ __| |_ \ \| '_ \ / _` / _| / /\ \ _| '_/ _` (_-< ' \ \_\_.__/_\__,_\__|_\_\ \_\__|_| \__,_/__/_||_| http://www.blacktrash.org/ _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
