[systemd-devel] vt220 default for serial console still relevant?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mo, 13.07.20 18:16, Christopher Cox (ccox at endlessnow.com) wrote:

> > No vt220 does not support colour. I used to work on one and it is
> > monochrome hardware.
> > Xterm and konsole support extensions beyond vt220 that add in the colour support.
>
> Not sure how much (offtopic) history we want to get into.  I used the VT240
> in my college graphics class.  The VT241 was the color variant.
>
> See: http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT240
>
> I still meet programmers what hard code ansi sequences rather than querying
> termcap/terminfo.  You know what they say about those who "assume".

Hmm, if vt241 is a bettre featured terminal type, and both xterm and
the Linux console a superset of it, and the terminal widely available
in termcaps and stuff we can certainly change our default TERM to be
vt241.

Daan, if this all is the case, could you prep a PR?

Lennart

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