On Feb 15, 1:37 pm, Matt Wozniski <[email protected]> wrote:
> /me points athttp://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html- it lays

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html

> out every single control sequence that xterm understands.  Feel free
> to contact me off list with any non-vim questions about terminals,
> and I'll be happy to help, too.
>
> > I believe I've got it now. I reread this after responding to
> > Tony's email, and one of the remaining questions I had (whether
> > Vim could request background color equal to default when the
> > default doesn't correspond to one of the colors on the "cube") was
> > answered.
>
> Technically, it's possible in xterms to change the default
> background color or default foreground color on the fly, but vim
> doesn't use this functionality - and it doesn't work in all

(that's referring to "dynamic colors" - only in xterm)

> terminals, anyway.  Likewise, xterm has a "hidden" attribute that
> you can set for some text, which sets it to be invisible - but,
> again, this is only on xterms (technically, vt300's), and vim
> doesn't use this feature.

> The terminal emulator itself.  Konsole uses a different color
> palette than xterm for it's cube.  Eterm uses one that's different
> from both xterm and Konsole.  AFAIK, though, every other 256-color
> terminal uses the xterm palette.  urxvt (without the 256-color
> patch) and very old xterms support 88 colors instead of 256, but my
> research has led me to believe that all 88-color terminal emulators
> use the same palette.  Previews of the 3 different 256-color

not really (xterm's palette is programmable,
not true of "every other" terminal).  88 or 256
colors in xterm is a configure option.  Some
video cards don't have enough memory for the
256, so 88 is a choice.  A 256-color xterm
can be setup to use 88 colors.

> palettes can be found here, for the curious:
>
> http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~mjw452/256.html
>
> ~Matt

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