Re: Truecolor support in ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:08:10PM +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thomas, you've just posted this link in midnight commander's
> corresponding bugreport:
> http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#xterm_16MegaColors
> 
> Please allow me to respond here.  I don't want to pollute mc's thread
> with ncurses discussion, I believe it belongs to the ncurses list.
> 
> A couple of notes:
> 
> - The newest development version of gnome-terminal (actually vte
> 0.35.1) does support 16M colors, and both ";" and ":" as number
> separators.

I'll keep that in mind, for when it's released.

(one of the gnome developers previously misrepresented a change regarding
vte as "released", when in fact it had not even been committed - something
I also keep in mind in discussing vte).
 
> - On my computer "uname -m" reports x86_64, yet a "long long" is still
> 8 bytes only, just as a "long", hence I still believe that the demo

thanks - I'll amend that sentence.  I must have recall the other 64-bit
platform :-)
 
> As much as I'd like to get this feature mode widespread and understand
> what we could do (if anything) to have support in ncurses, you writing
> a FAQ about why it's not done rather than responding in the thread
> implies to me that you're really don't find it feasible to work on
> this, so all I can do is sadly accept it and move on.

yes - there's nothing that I can do

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