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.
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