Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:48:02AM EDT, Frank Terbeck wrote: [...] > > With one exception. Colours with bold attribute appear as if the bold > > attribute wasn't there. [...] > I first ran into this annoying issue while still on debian "etch" when I > first noticed that "bright" colors were not rendered correctly in one > particular ncurses application, namely the (excellent) weechat-curses > irc client - neither under GNU/screen or running native on xterm, with > $TERM=xterm-25color.
I think I even read parts of a thread about this when I was trying to figure out how to tackle this problem. :-) [...] > Pretty much on a hunch, I hacked a ~/.terminfo entry for 256-color xterm > that changed the setaf= and setab= values to those that are specified in > putty-256color, tested again with $TERM set to this custom terminfo > entry, and sure enough, everything I threw at it worked fine, at least > with regards to "bold" colors. What would those setaf= and setab= values be? > At that point I figured it was time to get in touch with Thomas Dickey, > the upstream xterm and ncurses maintainer, who informed me that the > current xterm-256color entry has precisely the setaf= and setab= values > of my hacked version and that this has been the case since 2006..! That is kind of weird, because my debian lenny tells me, its curses version is: 5.7+20081213-1 - which is well beyond 2006. [...] > I compiled the current version of ncurses and ran further tests with the > updated xterm-256color terminfo entry and in every context I tested, > everything appears to work as intended: all 0-256 colors are correctly > rendered. > > So maybe the long-term solution to this issue is to bug the debian > maintainers until they provide the user community with a long-awaited > update of the ncurses package..? If it is indeed a debian problem, that certainly would be the right way to go. Regards, Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
