Re: COLORS and COLOR_PAIRS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Michael D. Adams wrote:

> > You can make a custom terminfo that sets the pairs value to whatever you
> > want (though more than 17*17 would be not very useful).
>
> That should work.  Thank you!  I am curious though why you said 17
> instead of 9.  Are there other COLOR_* constants than the main 8?

I was thinking about the maximum number of colors in ncurses 5.4,
which is 4 bits worth (16 colors), e.g., xterm-16color

ANSI (now ISO) define only 8 colors, but a few terminals can display more 
than that.

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