Report-an-Apple-bug Friday! 9
This bug is Terminal should support xterm‘s 256-color mode. It was filed on 2006-03-17 at 20:44.
Summary:
xterm has a 256-color mode. Terminal should support it.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Launch Terminal.
- Run 256colors2.pl from the above website.
Expected Results:
Lots of pretty colors.
Actual Results:
Lots of backslashes and 16 pretty colors.
Regression:
None known.
Notes:
Some applications, including vim, look for TERM to be set to xterm-256color. Therefore, Terminal’s default should be changed to this if 256-color support is added.
Technorati tags: Apple Bug Friday, applebugfriday.
December 3rd, 2006 at 01:28:51
Not to be redundant, but here’s my redundant re-post of said problem:
rdar://4811110
30-Oct-2006 08:20 PM Walter Lapchynski:
Summary:
Terminal.app should support xterm’s 256 color mode but doesn’t.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Terminal.app.
2. Click on Terminal.
3. Click Preferences.
4. Change “Declare terminal type ($TERM) as” to xterm-color.
5. Hit Cmd-N for a new window.
6. Run the attached 256colors2.pl.
Expected Results:
should look like http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/img/256colors2.png
Actual Results:
a bunch of backslashes, a little flashing section and 16 colors.
Regression:
n/a – happens everywhere.
Notes:
First noticed when trying to use different themes in vim. The vimrc that ships with OS X is only set up to recognize 8 colors and tweaking to 16 helps a bit (:set t_Co=16) but setting to 256 does nothing.
‘256colors2.pl’ was successfully uploaded