First of all, ncurses have no support for 16M colors palette. Then, hardcoding ansi codes is not really a crappy way - see vim sources as an example. Best regards, Anton Kochkov.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Marc Lehmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:38:30PM +0400, Антон Кочков > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hm. From the http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1307/16688.html : >> > I've been doing some ansi tests and found that only xterm (not urxvt, vte, >> > iterm2,cmd.exe) supports truecolor ansi escape codes. >> > It is documented in wikipedia, but afaik, only radare2 uses it (when >> > enabled). >> > Do you think that it should be implemented in st or we should stand >> > supporting the most common scenarios? >> > True RGB (24bit color) is constructed like this: >> > \x1b[38;5;R;G;Bm >> > Where 38 is fg (48 is bg) >> > And RGB are decimal (1-3chars) from 0-255 >> Best regards, >> Anton Kochkov. > > The correct code to use is given by "ccc", "initc" or "initp" in > terminfo. While AFAIK the code is the same in xterm and urxvt, hardcoding > terminal-specific codes is just fail on side of the program - the correct > way is to use terminfo, e.g. via ncurses (which simplifies things > considerably over raw terminfo). That way it works on every terminal that > supports colour. not just xterm and urxvt. > > Note that the so-called "true colour ansi escape code" has nothing to do > with true colour nor ansi. Hardcoding such extensions when a portable > mechanism exists is just sloppy coding. > > Or in other words, if one writes a program specifically so that it only > works on a specific terminal, then it will only work on that specific > terminal - it will not even work on another terminal with exactly the same > support, because the terminal name will be different. > > There is nothing that urxvt can do about such badly written programs. It's > certainly not difficult to use ncurses to do it properly, without > hardcoding specific terminals, and it's certainly not any lack of > truecolour support in other terminals that keeps it form working, it's > just low quality coding in that application. > > -- > The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG > -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net > ----==-- _ generation > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
