Out of curiosity, did they move to 256 colors in the 10.6 terminal? I don't have a copy, yet...
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Kyle Lippincott <spect...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, ANSI color has historically been 16 colors. It's an escape character, > a left square bracket, and then some data. The data for color and text > styles is a semicolon separated list of numbers followed by a lowercase m. > 30-37 are foreground colors, 40-47 are background colors, and if there's a > '1' it sets it to high intensity to allow 8 'bright colors'. Without that > option picked you get to see bold text instead of bright colors and are > limited to 8 colors. > Your original message said 'full spectrum', I interpreted that as meaning > "more than 16 colors". Some terminals (iTerm is one) are able to > additionally use a completely different scheme of color numbering and get 88 > or 256 colors, while GUI versions of Vim allow 24-bit color. Terminal.app > can not show greater than 16 colors on Leopard or Snow Leopard, > unfortunately, and might even default to 8 + bold which is even worse. > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM, jml <mirths.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hmm... >> But don't you at least get ANSI color?: >> >> I found this to be the case by going to Preferences > Settings > Text >> > Display ANSI colors && Use Bright Colors for bold text >> >> I also saw this article, just in case you don't see that option in >> your terminal: >> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020408225741777 >> >> On Oct 13, 10:31 pm, Kyle Lippincott <spect...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Nope, Terminal.app in 10.5 (and afaik 10.6, but I haven't checked.. a >> > quick >> > internet search seems to confirm though) still is 16-color without mouse >> > support. iTerm is actually usable lately though, so I've just been >> > using >> > that instead. >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
