Colors break when received over ssh about alacritty HOT 4 CLOSED

which means by default, alacritty does not support 256 colors for ssh in the terminal

That is not accurate. Alacritty's correct terminfo is alacritty. You just need to have alacritty's terminfo installed on both hosts.

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Sounds like a TERM issue. Does TERM=xterm-256color ssh fix it?

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It does indeed, thank you!

This solves my issues, but to double-check:

due to this code

On my client, in iTerm2 and Terminal, I get

~ ❯ echo $TERM
xterm-256color

and in Alacritty I get

❯ echo $TERM
alacritty

which means by default, alacritty does not support 256 colors for ssh in the terminal, opposed to other terminals' defaults?
Do you still want to have it this way or is there a possibility to improve things somehow in Alacritty?

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terminfo name has nothing to do with the colors it supports. You can use tput colors for that, but you should have the terminfo installed.

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