On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 03:34:58 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On 27 Sep 2014, at 02:48, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: >> >> PuTTY currently does not support 256-color mode. See >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/256-colours.html > > That page indicates that putty had supported 256 colours since 2004. > I was sure I had used them when I last used putty (a while ago). > It's right that little client software uses the extra colours: > I configure mutt to use the extra greyscale range for increasing > or decreasing the prominence of mailing list posters by sender.
Right you are! I didn't read far enough. I assumed that since it was listed on the "wish list" page it hadn't been implemented yet. There is an "xterm+256color" terminal type in ncurses, but not an "xterm+256color-utf8" terminal type. Someone should create one. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1494088570.18302834.1411828977606.javamail.zim...@wowway.com
