I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice — Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals | Chad Austin

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Where Did 24-Bit Color Support Come From? ⤴️ ^6ed8893b

A deep dive into terminfo and terminal colors. I have been using xterm-256 without realizing what it meant. Now after reading this, I might screw around with my .dot-files and play with tmux-direct and xterm-direct

Nesting ⤴️ ^f506c72a

This to me is the money shot. Of how a simple terminal on a modern operating system is actually built on decades of abstractions which still try and uphold backward compatibility