Can't really have fun without:
- OpenSSH
- GNU screen
- KornShell 93, AWK, 1003.1 Shell & Utilities
- Emacs, ed
- Mutt
- Midnight Commander (mc)
- Elinks
- Terminus font (sure, it's not a tool, but it sure as hell helps , especially during those 20 hour debugging sessions).
256 colors _really_ do make quite a difference in Emacs (and vim) btw. Normal dtterm or xterm-color get you the first 8...
All you really need to do to get this working on AIX is to add a new TERMINFO entry (tic). You can easily grab the 256 color xterm with infocmp..
/usr/bin/tput colors
256
VIM looks pretty good too with a 256 color theme also (inkpot):
My termcap does not have entries for xterm-256, xterm-256color, or screen-256color. Not quite sure how to install these (or make them with infocmp and tic).
ReplyDeleteYou can grab one from any system that has it with infocmp, and install the result with tic.
ReplyDeleteSomething along the lines of:
export TERM=xterm-256colors; infocmp > xterm-256colors.tic on any machine that has such a term.
Then on the machine you want to install it to:
tic xterm-256colors.tic
export TERM=xterm-256colors
"tput colors" will output 256.
I don't remember where I took mine from, I just kept a copy.
I've pasted a infocmp dump of xterm-256colors here:
http://paste.lisp.org/display/91833
You should be able to save this to disk as xterm-256colors.tic and import it into the terminfo database using tic.
Thanks so much for this! I had mistakenly copied my pre-compiled terminfo entries from my mac to my linux server and wondered why it wasn't working correctly! using infocmp to export the info and then tic to compile it is much better!
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