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SubjectRe: [REVERT Request] VT Breakage
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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