Re: Support for XTerm's 256-color extension?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: stktrc <stktrc@yahoo.com>
> Date: 05 May 2004 21:43:49 +0300
> 
> > What is the value of "NC" for the 256-color xterm on your system?
> 
> I found out it was 32 (disable bold), which was the cause for not
> getting bold, i.e., you were on the right track.
> 
> Looking at the definition of xterm-256color in the terminfo file in
> xterm-187, there is ncv#32.  There is a comment before the definition
> that seems to provide some information on why ncv is 32, but I do not
> understand it fully.  See below.
> 
> #
> # OPT_PC_MODE should be settable with OSC, and the init for this
> # should turn it off; then ncv could be 0.
> # This uses RGB values 0..1000
> xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors,
>         ccc,
>         colors#256,
>         ncv#32,
> [rest, not as interesting, left out]
> 
> I made a custom terminfo entry that extends xterm-256color with ncv#0,
> so that bold now works.
> 
> Should this really be necessary?

It shouldn't, but I'm guessing that whoever wrote that entry had
his/her reasons.

I'm CC'ing T. Dickey in the hope that he could help us understand this
issue.