On 2008-07-01, Marc Haisenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > xterm has color capabilities for ages and the terminfo xterm entry > > contains this information. > > Yes, but in a lot of places it is still assumed that "xterm" means > monochrome. > For example, try OpenSolaris: if TERM=xterm you'll get a monochrome vim. > Setting it to "xterm-color" or "xterm-256color" fixes that. I ran into this > when I installed OpenSolaris a few weeks back :-) > > Code that outputs color escape sequences for "xterm" is, in a very strict > sense, wrong. Of course there's always the "correct-according-to-the-specs" > vs. "Do-What-I-Mean" conflict :-)
The terminfo description for "xterm" that is distributed with xterm itself, which I would think would make it definitive, says it supports 8 colors. Regards, Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
