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Re: Wrong foreground colors with TERM=linux-16color using ncurses


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Wrong foreground colors with TERM=linux-16color using ncurses
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:14:29 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:57:37AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
...
Arguably this does "mention"

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/65d9982d7e523a1a8e7c9af012da0d166f72fc56#diff-7da3c215d12c9f6b88e1a37d38b116f0

but the justification is pointless, except for people writing hardcoded
scripts.  We don't do that here: the terminal description tells what
the terminal actually does, not necessarily what someone would like it to do.

> (and it's unlikely that anyone updated the console_codes manpage).

looking forward to this part :-)

By the way, Linux console has other longstanding non-standard features
which are used in other terminal descriptions (and documented in the
console_codes manpage).

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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