[VT-72] vit should support more than xterm

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Ben Boeckel on 2012-11-26T20:18:37Z says:

At least screen-256color should be supported.

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Created: 2012-11-26T20:18:37Z
Modified: 2014-07-21T22:07:24Z

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steve rader on 2012-11-26T22:01:45Z says:

Agreed.

Vit is very much unlike Taskwarrior because it insists on a xterm terminal type. I'll remove that restriction entirely.

I just ran Vit in screen with a few hacks and that appears to have uncovered some bugs in colorization parsing. I'll exterminate them, assuming doing so isn't unreasonably difficult. (And thus I'm leaving this feature request open.)

For the posterity, to get screen running Taskwarrior, I had to put the following in my ~/.screenrc file...

attrcolor b ".I"
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
defbce "on"

...as per http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/

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steve rader on 2012-11-28T18:59:47Z says:

The "xterm restriction" has been removed as of Vit v0.4.

However, on my RHEL and Ubuntu machines, Vit does not look good when using "screen" and Taskwarrior's default 256color configuration.

I have verified, by way of a test program, that the Curses libraries are mangling the clean Taskwarrior xterm-256color colorization escape sequences into very complex ones, which the "screen" and "linux" terminal types do not handle properly.

I have hope (but have not not verified) that Vit with the "screen" or "linux" terminal types will look correctly when Taskwarrior is configured to use 16color (ANSI colorization.) If anyone tries this and I'm incorrect, let me know.

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