Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] index/RGB colors and italic/reverse/underline attributes

[David Ramsey]

Benno Schulenberg:
> ??  I don't understand what you mean.

As described earlier in this thread:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2018-02/msg00103.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2018-02/msg00104.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2018-02/msg00105.html

> My Xfce4-terminal is version 0.8.6.  (Xfce4-panel and -session are
> 4.12.) And TERM is set properly:
>
> $ env | grep TERM
> COLORTERM=truecolor
> TERM=xterm-256color

Mine is 4.12 as well, but Xfce-terminal is 0.6.3.  I went ahead and
manually upgraded to Xfce-terminal 0.8.6, and now $TERM is set properly.
Thanks for the info.

> You need two color schemes anyway, you just want to be able to specify
> both at the same time.  You call it a fallback, but it is a secondary
> color scheme.

If 256 colors aren't available, which they aren't always guaranteed to
be, going back to the closest specified 16-color equivalents is, by
definition, a fallback.  Kindly do not tell me what I mean here.