Re: [joe] color availability

[<ja...@av...>]

I'm using the 'setf' (Sf) terminfo capability to set the foreground color.
By default you get the 8 ANSI colors that you see in JOE, so I'm doing the
most portable thing. And in the old days, this was the only option.

However, I just did 'man terminfo': there is a new interesting capability:
initc (Ic), which allows you to override the meanings of the color numbers
you specify with 'setf' (you say: make color 1 this RGB value), so it looks
like I can allow for more colors.  I have to think about how to make use of
this.  Probably you are still better off sticking with the default colors.

>Eep!  Wouldn't it be a better idea to use ncurses colors (which are
>based on terminfo/termcap) instead of hard-coding ANSI escape sequences,
>or am I off base here?