On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > xterm has color capabilities for ages and the terminfo xterm entry > contains this information.
Yes, but in a lot of places it is still assumed that "xterm" means monochrome. For example, try OpenSolaris: if TERM=xterm you'll get a monochrome vim. Setting it to "xterm-color" or "xterm-256color" fixes that. I ran into this when I installed OpenSolaris a few weeks back :-) Code that outputs color escape sequences for "xterm" is, in a very strict sense, wrong. Of course there's always the "correct-according-to-the-specs" vs. "Do-What-I-Mean" conflict :-) > Of course, when linking against libtermcap instead of ncurses... ;) > > Corinna Hehe :-) Marc -- Marc Haisenko Comdasys AG Rüdesheimer Str. 7 80686 München Germany Tel.: +49 (0)89 548 433 321 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
