Re: (no subject)

[Christian Ebert]

* ara.t.howard on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 at 11:33:41 -0600
> On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:22 AM, cga2000 wrote:
>> IIRC .. you first need to have a version of screen that supports 256
>> colors _and_ specify --enable-colors256 when you ./configure it prior
>> to compile.
> 
> right.  the Portfile on OSX does indeed specify this option to configure
> 
>> Another thing is that you are going to need to have screen point to a
>> terminfo entry that supports 256 colors.
>> 
>> I do the latter with the following .screenrc statement:
>> 
>>  term    "screen-256color-bce"
> 
> how odd, with that in my .screenrc i get the following error on startup:
> 
> "TERMCAP", line 20, col 1, terminal 'screen-256color-bce': Illegal 
> character (expected alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - ^J

AFAIR ncurses shipped with MacOS X is an old version that doesn't
have a screen-256color entry.

What gives:

$ infocmp screen-256color

If you get an error, the cleanest solution is to install a recent
ncurses version (fink's is not new enough either, don't know
about MacPorts).

c
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