Re: LYNX-DEV `-color' option

[Laura Eaves]

> Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 10:05:49 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Klaus Weide <address@hidden>
>...
> You cannot use it to turn use of color *off* if the terminal is already
> recognizes as supporting color; you can use it to turn color *on* while
> using a terminal type which, by its terminfo/termcap description, does not
> support color (and the slang code then makes some assumptions about the
> missing capabilities).  It is a way to force colors on without changing
> TERM (or using -term) for (for example) "vt100" emulations.  The better
> way would be to use a terminal type which describes all the capbilities of
> the terminal correctly, but that is not always (as easily) possible.
>
> `-color' and COLORTERM have always worked for me that way.

It seems I tried all the terminals my software emulates
at onepoint and found the only ones that worked with lynx were
the vt terminals and (not as well) ansi.
What terminal(s) do you use that support color without using -color?
--le

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