Re: More robust color terminal

[Reid Thompson <reid dot thompson at ateb dot com>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Reid Thompson wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > > Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors.
> > > >        
> > > Welcome to 1983.  I at least hope they include those horrid CGA
> > > colors.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gary R. Van Sickle
> > >      
> > recompiling rxvt for 256 colors is not hard.
> >
> > $ ./rxvt -help |head
> > Rxvt v2.7.10 - released: 26 MARCH 2003
> > Options:
> > XPM,transparent,utmp,menubar,multichar_languages,scrollbars=rxvt+NeXT+xterm,frills,linespace,256colour,.Xdefaults
> >    
>
> Ah, I knew I saw something about rxvt supporting 256 colors somewhere.
> The man page is misleading, apparently.
>
> Any idea why the current release doesn't use 256 colors?
> 	Igor
> P.S. Don't you mean "rxvt -help 2>&1 | head"?  Rxvt's help goes to stderr.
>  
LOL -- yeah -- i just selected the top portion to paste when it bypassed 
head.

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