On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Stephen Borrill wrote:

>>      Why?  A real vt220 terminal doesn't have colour, so why should a
>> termcap/terminfo entry for a vt220 have colour definitions? 
>
>It shouldn't strictly.

But many vt220 emulators do have colour support (and I suspect real
VT220 terminals are a bit rare these days).  And a properly-constructed
ANSI escape sequence parser should silently ignore any SGR parameters
which it doesn't understand.  Certainly a Wyse-185, which is the nearest
we have to a hardware VT220 does.


Roger

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