On 7/14/20 3:19 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mo, 13.07.20 18:16, Christopher Cox (ccox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
No vt220 does not support colour. I used to work on one and it is
monochrome hardware.
Xterm and konsole support extensions beyond vt220 that add in the colour support.
Not sure how much (offtopic) history we want to get into. I used the VT240
in my college graphics class. The VT241 was the color variant.
See: http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT240
I still meet programmers what hard code ansi sequences rather than querying
termcap/terminfo. You know what they say about those who "assume".
Hmm, if vt241 is a bettre featured terminal type, and both xterm and
the Linux console a superset of it, and the terminal widely available
in termcaps and stuff we can certainly change our default TERM to be
vt241.
Daan, if this all is the case, could you prep a PR?
I would think shooting for something low is actually good. Let the individual
configure for something "better".
I'm not sure I'm ready to say monochrome is obsolete. There can be beauty in
simplicity and function. My preference, aim low, and allow easy configuration
upward. You could take the opposite stance of course, it's just that it could
cause some frustration.
Just my opinion though. I'm old and I think about a lot of things like
terminals, "proxies" and callback modems... things of value, but most do not
understand or care about anymore.
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