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authorNicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>2009-08-08 20:46:26 +0000
committerNicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>2009-08-08 20:46:26 +0000
commit80196c9abcc1c9c3f809b80a78f6636f5a5acb9d (patch)
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parentbecdf220fd4eda148dedb2f28909b8562dd0bb19 (diff)
Fix typo and add ref to infocmp.
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@@ -97,13 +97,14 @@ flag may be specified when creating or attaching a client to a tmux session:
* How do I use a 256 colour terminal?
-Provided the underlying terminal supports 256 colours,, it is usually
-sufficient to add the following to ~/.tmux.conf:
+Provided the underlying terminal supports 256 colours, it is usually sufficient
+to add the following to ~/.tmux.conf:
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
-Note that some platforms do not support "screen-256color" - in this case see
-the next entry in this FAQ.
+Note that some platforms do not support "screen-256color" ("infocmp
+screen-256color" will return an error) - in this case see the next entry in
+this FAQ.
tmux attempts to detect a 256 colour terminal both by looking at the colors
terminfo entry and by looking for the string "256col" in the TERM environment
@@ -200,4 +201,4 @@ on the Window -> Translation configuration page. For example, change UTF-8 to
ISO-8859-1 or CP437. It may also be necessary to adjust the way PuTTY treats
line drawing characters in the lower part of the same configuration page.
-$Id: FAQ,v 1.28 2009-08-08 20:42:42 nicm Exp $
+$Id: FAQ,v 1.29 2009-08-08 20:46:26 nicm Exp $