Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 02:48, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that the Debian wiki is the right place for this information.
> Although there is a Linux port of PuTTY, 99% of PuTTY users are
> Windows users, including me. Although it may be used to login remotely
> to a Debian system, PuTTY itself is Windows software. And I'm not
> sure that the Debian wiki is the place for making recommendations
> for how to configure Windows software. I might write my own web
> page about it
As you wish. I personally would consider it relevant to the wiki, but others would disagree.
> PuTTY currently does not support 256-color mode. See
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/256-colours.html
That page indicates that putty had supported 256 colours since 2004. I was sure I had used them when I last used putty (a while ago). It's right that little client software uses the extra colours: I configure mutt to use the extra greyscale range for increasing or decreasing the prominence of mailing list posters by sender.
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