Re: mutt on an xterm with more colors?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Douglas A. Augusto wrote:
> On 10/11/2004 at 18:25,
> Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Douglas A. Augusto wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What about this beautiful 256-colors screenshot?!?
> > >
> > > http://ku.wru.umt.edu/mirrors/guckes.net/mutt/pics/dreger.mutt256.png
> >
> > I don't know: some months ago I saw some reference to possibly slang doing
> > 256 colors, but on investigation found that it wasn't doing that -
> > including seeing some comment written by John Davis (though it's possible
> > someone has a patch). ncurses doesn't (a terminfo application could of
> > course, but that's different). The limitation is on where the bits are
> > stored.
> >
> > In that picture, I can't see more than about 12 different colors.
>
> GIMP found about 31 unique colors (colorcube analysis) ;)
GIMP's eyes are better than mine. But is that foreground+background
combinations or distinct colors? Anyway, ncurses could (at this moment)
give any selection of 256 combinations from the colors supported (ymmv).
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