88 colors don't work under GNU screen

Serge Koksharov gentoosiast at yandex.ru
Wed Mar 15 01:22:20 CET 2006


Marc Lehmann writes:
>>Hmm, may be I didn't make it clear. I mean that for Mutt and VIM, for 
>>example, I need to create two colorschemes instead of one.
> 
> 
> Why? At least mutt displays identical on 88 vs. 256 color terminals, and vim
> seems to do the same? Maybe the issue is something else?

Because I use extended colors (not the first sixteen) in my 
colorschemes. And they are mapped differently in each of these cases, 
because GNU screen maps its 256 colors to 88 urxvt's (each urxvt color 
repeated three times). Of course, creating two colorschemes instead of 
one, means writing a simple Perl script which converts from one to 
another. So, it's a minor problem.




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