I've installed the latest testing alacritty and it works fine in most cases. However, I'm having trouble with vim and some color schemes (and when setting termguicolors). The alacritty wiki (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/d20051b5e5a8ee3c8dcd75a87d375ac7611a9d2d/INSTALL.md#terminfo) states that although the xterm-256color definition should work fine, you should install alacritty's own terminfo file. I tried doing that, but it doesn't work. It seems that setting TERM to xterm-256color solves my vim issues, but I was wondering if the alacritty's own terminfo capability file can be installed.
Hi! new enough ncurses ships alacritty terminfo, it's upstream. > 6.2-r1 > qlist ncurses | grep alacritty > /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty > /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty-direct > /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty+common we used to generate one in the ebuild and stopped doing that, because of conflicts. I suggest just using. env: TERM: xterm-256color in alacritty.yml you don't really loose a lot that way, and if you ssh to a system that does not have alacritty terminfo file installed you still keep the colors. you have to have alacritty terminfo on a system you ssh to, not locally, for colors to work. but xterm-256 color is good workaround if systems you often ssh to have ancient ncurses. some history here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/690030
and here's some vim black magic for you. it makes truecolor work on alacritty, screen and tmux. even if TERM=alacritty > > if &term =~# '^screen' || &term =~# '^tmux' || &term =~# '^alacritty' > let &t_8f = "\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum" > let &t_8b = "\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum" > endif > set termguicolors >
(In reply to Georgy Yakovlev from comment #2) > and here's some vim black magic for you. > > it makes truecolor work on alacritty, screen and tmux. even if TERM=alacritty > > > > > if &term =~# '^screen' || &term =~# '^tmux' || &term =~# '^alacritty' > > let &t_8f = "\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum" > > let &t_8b = "\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum" > > endif > > set termguicolors > > Thank you for the tip and the information!
