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.

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