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Re: Support for XTerm's 256-color extension?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Support for XTerm's 256-color extension? |
Date: |
06 May 2004 08:39:45 +0200 |
> From: stktrc <address@hidden>
> Date: 05 May 2004 21:43:49 +0300
>
> > What is the value of "NC" for the 256-color xterm on your system?
>
> I found out it was 32 (disable bold), which was the cause for not
> getting bold, i.e., you were on the right track.
>
> Looking at the definition of xterm-256color in the terminfo file in
> xterm-187, there is ncv#32. There is a comment before the definition
> that seems to provide some information on why ncv is 32, but I do not
> understand it fully. See below.
>
> #
> # OPT_PC_MODE should be settable with OSC, and the init for this
> # should turn it off; then ncv could be 0.
> # This uses RGB values 0..1000
> xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors,
> ccc,
> colors#256,
> ncv#32,
> [rest, not as interesting, left out]
>
> I made a custom terminfo entry that extends xterm-256color with ncv#0,
> so that bold now works.
>
> Should this really be necessary?
It shouldn't, but I'm guessing that whoever wrote that entry had
his/her reasons.
I'm CC'ing T. Dickey in the hope that he could help us understand this
issue.