Re: max colors in text based terminals

>> this may not be a specific vim question, but i was wondering
>> what's the maximum no.of colors that can be supported in
>> text-based terminals, until recently i use to work with 16 colors.
>> i just learnt about the xterm-256 colors and enjoying it. so, i was
>> wondering what's the maximum number of colors that can be
>> supported in text based terminals.

Someone who isn't me claims that the terminal that comes with KDE, 'Konsole',
can do 'lots more'.
If that is really the case that'd be fantastic, but I wonder what sort of hack
they've added to vte and how much stuff they've broken in the process.

I've never managed to build Konsole, maybe someone who already have it installed
could take a look.

Here's a little known fact: the extended colors isn't static, so you can give
all 256 slots exactly the color values you want. Might be a good idea to use
something that can generate those for you though, else it could be pretty time
consuming. :)

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