[RFC] ColorD

[Jens Mueller]

Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 10:44:58 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
> >How?
> 
> The file /etc/termcap has the data too so opening it and quickly
> parsing should give the same result as the environment variable.

I'm running Debian. It doesn't have such a file.

> It looks like this:
> 
> vg|vt-generic|Generic VT entries:\
>         :bs:mi:ms:pt:xn:xo:it#8:\
> <snip>
> # Slackware 3.1 linux termcap entry (Sat Apr 27 23:03:58 CDT 1996):
> lx|linux|console|con80x25|LINUX System Console:\
>         :do=^J:co#80:li#25:cl=\E[H\E[J:sf=\ED:sb=\EM:\
> <snip>
> 
> and so on. The $TERM variable is used as a key into one of those
> names, then the rest of the data is on the following lines.
> 
> The termcap entries can also inherit from other entries, but again
> it is just a key lookup into the list.

Jens