Re: Mutt & 256 colors re-re-re-visited
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On Monday, January 29 at 07:18 PM, quoth cga2000:
>> As you can see, when parsing something like "color34", *col becomes
>> 34, and is checked against the value of COLORS. COLORS is a value
>> defined by ncurses and slang.
>
>Yes, but wouldn't these libraries obtain the value of COLORS from
>the terminfo entry pointed to by the process's TERM environment
>variable?
Yes and no. If the library only supports up to 16 colors (for
example), then it can accurately set COLORS for xterm, vt100, and
xterm-16color, but not for xterm-256color.
>But then .. where did this rxvt terminfo entry that specifies 256
>colors come from .. ?? I thought that would be part of the curses
>package and should therefore by in sync' with the librar{y|ies} .. ?
Hmm, could be he hand-modified his own rxvt terminfo in an attempt to
get 256 colors working. Other than that, I don't know. I *can* tell
you that the default rxvt on Solaris doesn't do 256 colors, though.
~Kyle
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