256color support

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There are a lot of terminal applications available today (vim and emacs to name 
two) that offer extra functionality in terminals that support ANSI 256color 
output. Currently I see that applications that are 256color-aware fail to 
render correctly using the current version of terminal-ide; the colors don't 
even fall back to the basic 16 ANSI terminal colors (which they should, 
according to some implementations), instead, they behave similarly to the 
"reset" character in that they set the corresponding color to black.

It would be fairly trivial to add support for 256colors, since it's just an 
extension of the ANSI color table anyways; the application does just have to be 
aware of the additional color codes and map them accordingly.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by david.fl...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2012 at 2:23

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solution is here i suppose:

http://www.enigmacurry.com/2009/01/20/256-colors-on-the-linux-terminal/

can you compile this into terminal ide?

Original comment by Alexande...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2012 at 5:08

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No, that is not a solution. The article assumes that the terminal already has 
support for 256 colors. The terminal in terminal-ide doesn't have that, so 
changing the TERM variable won't do anything.

Original comment by david.fl...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2012 at 3:01

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This needs fixing, your terminal is the only one that works with every hardware 
keyboard, and in addition you've got a lot of useful apps, but 256 color would 
be very very nice. ConnectBot is OSS and supports it so maybe you could see how 
they do it? 

Original comment by Rohit...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2012 at 12:30

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Can anyone tell me why this hasn't been implemented yet?
This is something I'd like to hack on over the summer and I'd like a heads up 
on any potential technical challenges.

Original comment by philipbj...@gmail.com on 23 May 2012 at 7:09

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@phil: I'm interested in this feature as well. It looks to me like terminal-ide 
uses the code from Android Terminal Emulator to render the terminal.  

https://github.com/jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator

So it might be worth asking at that project why the 256colors is not supported.

Original comment by souther...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2012 at 11:36

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i'm also interested on this. This Feature would make TerminalIDE the best 
android term out there.

Any insight on this issue ? is it possible to have 256 color support ?

Original comment by leandro....@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2012 at 4:03