Re: Emacs 256 color support.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Josh Howard wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
> > I'm assuming he's using a termcap that does the corresponding set foreground
> > and background strings.  That would be something like
> > 
> >     :AB=\E[48;5;%dm:\
> >     :AF=\E[38;5;%dm:
> > 
> > Just changing the number of colors won't do much.
> 
> Well, that did it, I think. I had gone under the assumption that the
> termcap info was correct, but in fact it wasn't. I converted the
> terminfo file supplied by the xterm distro into a termcap file and
> used the xterm-256color entry. Perhaps in the next xterm release, the
> terminfo file could be tic'd for those of us still using termcap?

I'll check - but it might be above the 1023-byte limit.

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