256 color terminals
While the rest of the techworld is getting excited about their aero, quartz or compiz 32bit color 3D desktop, I reached a less impressive milestone today:
From now on I use a 256 color terminal ;-). Actually I looked into this earlier, but since gnome-terminal and screen didn't support it back then (maybe upstream, but not in my distro), I enabled support just today.
Excellent documentation on this topic is already available on multiple places, but to summarize for myself:
.screenrc attrcolor b ".I" termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm' defbce "on" startup_message off .bash_profile set TERM xterm-256color; export TERM .vimrc set t_Co=256 colorscheme=asudark
For vim you need a special colorscheme (gvim colorschemes do not work). My vim hacked 256 colors scheme, which work better with a transparent background then the original, is available here.
Posted by jochem on 2008-09-26, last update on 2008-09-26