On 2022-11-10 at 22:36:14, Eric Sunshine wrote:

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 5:21 PM brian m. carlson
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On 2022-11-10 at 03:37:16, Eric Sunshine wrote:

quoted

I notice that the iTerm2 FAQ also recommends "xterm-new" on macOS, and
that one lacks "dim", as well on my machine. So, it seems that it
should be special-cased too.

Taking all the above into account, perhaps this regex?

    /xterm|xterm-.*color|xterm-new|nsterm/

Maybe this, then?

/(xterm|nsterm)(-(256color|direct))?|xterm-new/

That matches the three special variants of each one here plus xterm-new.

I was thinking of targeting xterm-16color too, not just
xterm-256color, just to cover bases a bit better.

Sure, that seems like a good idea.  I know that was popular for a time,
although I feel like it's maybe less popular today with more colour
options.

I also don't mind manually spelling out the regex:

    /xterm|xterm-\d+color|xterm-new|xterm-direct|nsterm|nsterm-\d+color|nsterm-direct/

for simplicity's sake; sure it's verbose, but it's also dead-easy for
people to understand and extend in the future if necessary.

Simplicity is nice.  I think that seems like a good pattern.
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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA