Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > use a terminal description that does have it such as xterm-color or
> > xterm-xfree86.
>
> This causes problems fora lot of people, I don't think there are any b&w
> xterms
> out there
Any xterm from a codebase older than 1996 or so.
and recent ncurses does have setaf/setab in its xterm
> description... so I don't see a reason we shouldn't just have a quirk to
> override it. Could you try this please?
Yikes!
What we should really consider is making xterm-xfree86 our "xterm"
termcap entry. xterms that don't support color are vanishingly
rare now, and if they are sent color command sequences, they will
just ignore them.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
