On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:19:18PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote: [...] > > a screen where the 256 color support is advertised (on terminals > > without 256 colors, screen translates the colors) > > Wait: That color reduction is a good feature. But the result on an 8 > color terminal might be not as good. I mean: An app thinking that 256 > colors are available may make use of them. Once reduced to 8, some > nuances disappear. While the same app in 8 color mode may make better > use of the 8 from the beginning. [...]
Hi Alain, OTOH, I don't know that many applications that support more than 8 colors anyway. And with those applications, screen-256color would be fine. The only applications I know of that support 256 colors are screen, vim and elinks (and dircolors/ls, and zsh to some extent) and you can easily change the color mode settings in those applications. So, I would go for screen-256color as long as I might attach my session to a 256 color aware terminal such as xterm or putty/pterm, maybe not otherwise. By the way, where could I find your putty entry? Cheers, Stéphane _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
