On 2/9/2012 4:00 AM, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > I'd rather not translate aixterm colours on terminals that support them: > > - They are fewer bytes than the 256 colour equivalents. > > - We can't predict what configuration options terminals have - some may > have the ability to alter the palette for aixterm colours independent > of the 256 colour palette. > > I'd rather they were passed through unaltered except on 8 colour > terminals.
I see your reasoning with the second point: tmux should make as few assumptions as possible regarding the underlying terminal. But, if you decide to accept my (original) patch, wouldn't tmux then be making the implicit assumption that all 256-colour terminals use the same palette as xterm-256 (and all 88-colour terminals the same as xterm-88)? For example, that the indices 8-15 correspond to the aixterm colours? (Actually, this assumption is still there in the current version of tmux; all the patch does is remove another assumption regarding the actual _format_ of the 256/88-colour escape sequences.) That being said, perhaps the better way of resolving the issue would be for tmux to have its own termcap/terminfo entries (I see from the TODO file that you have been considering this). As it stands right now, tmux assumes that all 256/88/16-colour terminals support aixterm colours. At least one 256-colour terminal (i.e. fbterm) does not. This wouldn't be an issue if not for the fact that 256-colour tmux relies on the 'screen-256color' termcap/terminfo entry, which yields ANSI colours for indices 0-7, aixterm colours for indices 8-15, and xterm-256 colours for indices 16-255 (for the sake of saving characters). Were tmux to have its own 256-colour termcap/terminfo entry it would seem best to use the same set of escape sequences (i.e. xterm-256) for all colours (or at least for non-ANSI colours). Then applications running in tmux and relying on termcap/terminfo would not be coerced into using aixterm colours, but the aixterm colours would be still be available for explicit use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
