Re: 256 colors

[Alain Bench]

Hello Nikolai,

 On Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 16:25:13 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> I've posted a suggestion for a screen-256color terminfo entry, but
> I don't think it's been picked up for the distribution, yet.

    An enhanced version of your entry is included in the official
terminfo database coming with Ncurses 5.6, since 2006-10-07, together
with some variations around (BCE or not, hardstatus or not, 16 or 256
colors):

screen-16color          GNU Screen with 16 colors
screen-16color-s        GNU Screen with 16 colors and status line
screen-16color-bce      GNU Screen with 16 colors and BCE
screen-16color-bce-s    GNU Screen with 16 colors, BCE, and status line
screen-256color         GNU Screen with 256 colors
screen-256color-s       GNU Screen with 256 colors and status line
screen-256color-bce     GNU Screen with 256 colors and BCE
screen-256color-bce-s   GNU Screen with 256 colors, BCE, and status line

    I've commented:

| # Those variations permit to benefit from 16 colors palette, and from
| # bold font and blink attribute separated from bright colors. But they
| # are less portable than the generic "screen" 8 color entries: Their
| # usage makes real sense only if the terminals you attach and reattach
| # do all support 16 color palette.

    Database surely deployed everywhere before second quarter 2038.


Bye!    Alain.
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