Markus Gans points out that some applications which (not at all
unreasonably) don't trust $TERM to tell them the full capabilities of
their terminal will use the sequence "OSC 4 ; nn ; ? BEL" to ask for
the colour-palette value in position nn, and they may not particularly
care _what_ the results are but they will use them to decide whether
the right number of colour palette entries even exist.
This is a heavily rewritten version of a patch originally by Lorenz
Diener; it was tidied up somewhat by Christian Brabandt, and then
tidied up more by me. The basic idea is to add to the termchar
structure a pair of small structs encoding 24-bit RGB values, each
with a flag indicating whether it's turned on; if it is, it overrides
any other specification of fg or bg colour for that character cell.
I've added a test line to colours.txt containing a few example colours
from /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt. In fact it makes quite a good demo to run
the whole of rgb.txt through this treatment, with a command such as
perl -pe 's!^\s*(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+).*$!\e[38;2;$1;$2;$3m$&\e[m!' rgb.txt
Unix PSCP, PSFTP, Plink and PuTTYgen now just report their build
platform as '64-bit Unix' or '32-bit Unix', without mentioning
irrelevant details of what flavour of GTK the other tools in the suite
might have been built against.
(In particular, they now won't imply anything outright untrue if there
was no GTK present at build time at all!)
Previously only Unix front ends bothered to include it, on the basis
that only the pty backend needed it (to set IUTF8 in the pty). We're
about to need it everywhere else too.
