Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:17:33 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [REVERT Request] VT Breakage |
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Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> said: >> VT220 was monochrome, too. You needed to go to the VT241 before you got >> color in the DEC terminal range (and even it didn't support color text >> via the SGR sequence (CSI m), according to the manual -- even the VT510 >> manual doesn't document colored text via SGR.) > > The VT510 is also monochrome (I'm sitting here typing on one).
Indeed it is. The color version is the VT525.
I haven't found the technical manual for VT525, but the user manual mentions as one of options in the configuration menu:
"Erase text to the text background color (PC style)" "Erase text to the screen background color (VT style)"
However, to a very large degree this is all moot. We have done it one way for 17 years, and that is the terminal emulation that is expected when $TERM is "linux". Realistically, if we want to introduce a new xterm-compatible mode it needs to be just that, a mode; and then we can set TERM to "xterm".
-hpa
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