I've tried really hard for many years to not learn about termcaps and the diff between TERM=xterm, vt200, vt100, etc.
But too often ssh'ing in from Linux & macOS, my color palette is slightly wrong or page up/down don't work and I just try diff until it works.
Reference recs?
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I've read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termcap and see gnu.org/software/termu but I'm looking for a summary of which TERM=foo names do/add what.
Also, it seems like "TERM=screen screen -d -r" seems pretty fancy. Italics, even!? Page up/down works, color respecting my prefs TBD.
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It seems some TERM=foo values respect the ~16 colors in my terminal profile preferences, and some TERM=bar values must support larger palettes (or arbitrary colors), and then I have no control over them.
Or I don't know where/how to control them.
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There are 256 and even 24-bit color palettes. You generally need to configure the applications using them. Most applications don't make use of it by default without explicitly configuring them to do it.
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The easiest solution is picking a broadly supported theme and configuring it everywhere. You probably don't want to disable the broader color palette support since it allows syntax highlighting, etc. to have more color classes.
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Honestly I'd prefer just 16 colors (probably 12 more than I need!) so I can tweak them in my terminal's GUI rather than fighting per-application config files in different languages.
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