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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:02:43 -0800
From: Jim Kleckner <jek-cygwin AT kleckner DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal
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Thorsten Kampe wrote:

>* Jim Kleckner (03-01-21 21:17 +0100)
>
>>I have mostly gotten my bash colors to display properly with black on white
>>which I find considerably more pleasing than white on black [...]
>>
>>Programs like info, man, and cpan, however, do not know about these switched
>>default colors.
>>
>
>I have switched to rxvt because of color problems with IPython and 
>haven't turned back.
>
>Have a look at the man page and my .Xdefaults[1]...
>

Thank you for the suggestion.  

I'm currently using the bare cmd.exe of Win2k and didn't want to have to 
start X11 just to get a terminal emulator.  It seems heavy - is this 
really necessary?  There is probably some magic thing to say in inputrc 
or terminfo to specify these colors but it has been 20 years since I 
waded into termcap/terminfo.  The manual mentions set_foreground and 
set_background but it requires a lot of digging to sort out.  I was 
hoping someone could point the way or say "there be dragons".

Jim



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