OK this clears it up. Yes I had originally meant "full spectrum" as 256 or greater.
I appreciate the explanation. On Oct 14, 10:51 am, Kyle Lippincott <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, ANSI color has historically been 16 colors. It's an escape character, > a left square bracket, and then some data. The data for color and text > styles is a semicolon separated list of numbers followed by a lowercase m. > 30-37 are foreground colors, 40-47 are background colors, and if there's a > '1' it sets it to high intensity to allow 8 'bright colors'. Without that > option picked you get to see bold text instead of bright colors and are > limited to 8 colors. > Your original message said 'full spectrum', I interpreted that as meaning > "more than 16 colors". Some terminals (iTerm is one) are able to > additionally use a completely different scheme of color numbering and get 88 > or 256 colors, while GUI versions of Vim allow 24-bit color. Terminal.app > can not show greater than 16 colors on Leopard or Snow Leopard, > unfortunately, and might even default to 8 + bold which is even worse. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
