Re: termcap-query feature

2006-02-02 Thread Jonathan Martin
It's a reference to the film masterpiece Back to the Future. If you find a reason to have 88 simultaneous colors on your terminal, your entire computer is whisked back in time to the late 70's. The result will be some music, then the creation of the VT100/ANSI X3.4 standards will be prevent

Re: termcap-query feature

2006-02-02 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:58:15AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On 2/1/06, Michael Schroeder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A screen-256color terminfo entry is probably the way to go... > > And possibly a screen-88color terminfo entry too... urxvt and a > handful of others support 88 colors (wh

Re: termcap-query feature

2006-02-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 2/1/06, Michael Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A screen-256color terminfo entry is probably the way to go... And possibly a screen-88color terminfo entry too... urxvt and a handful of others support 88 colors (who decided that? 88? what kind of number is that?). Aaron _

Re: termcap-query feature

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:45:37PM -0500, Dave Waxman wrote: > Your problem interested me so I ran a quick google search and found this > site, http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/ which had the following: > > "By default, screen is not aware that it is running in a 256 color > capable xterm. To make

Re: termcap-query feature

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Waxman
On Feb 01 06:49, Joel Leyh wrote: > Greetings. I use VIM in 88 color mode with xterm, and usually, it > works fine. I compile both with the termcap-query feature enabled. > When I use screen, VIM no longer displays with 88 colors, so I'm > assuming it's not able to communicat

Re: termcap-query feature

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:49:29AM -0600, Joel Leyh wrote: > Greetings. I use VIM in 88 color mode with xterm, and usually, it > works fine. I compile both with the termcap-query feature enabled. > When I use screen, VIM no longer displays with 88 colors, so I'm > assuming

termcap-query feature

2006-02-01 Thread Joel Leyh
Greetings. I use VIM in 88 color mode with xterm, and usually, it works fine. I compile both with the termcap-query feature enabled. When I use screen, VIM no longer displays with 88 colors, so I'm assuming it's not able to communicate with xterm. Is there a way to make this work w