Re: mlterm3 definition should support 256 colors

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:56:27AM +0100, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> Hi everyone. The current definition for mlterm3, which should in theory
> target mlterm 3.x, is a bit confusing. In fact, the multiple available
> definitions are a bit unclear in scope.
> 
> It seems that mlterm3 and mlterm-256color are identical, with the
> exception of color support and ccc.
> 
> Can somebody confirm that?

Start here:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#toc-_M_L_T_E_R_M
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-mlterm
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-mlterm-256color

"mlterm" is an alias, currently to "mlterm3".
 
> Shouldn't these two definitions should be aliased, taking
> mlterm-256color as the current version for mlterm3? mlterm 3.x of course
> has support for 256 colors.

no, there's no need to change them.
 
> I'm not sure what mlterm-direct is targeting. I assume also mlterm3,
> since the definition is currently identical to mlterm3 except for
> colors/pairs/setab/setaf, which I guess don't make sense in direct color
> mode. In this case, would it be possible to change the description to
> explicitly say "mlterm3 with direct-color indexing"?

that would defeat the purpose of using an alias :-)

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