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Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:32:15 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?
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Frank Slootweg schrieb:
>   A better solution would be one which 1) does *not* hardcode the
> colors, 2) *does* use inverse video ("7") and 3) displays
> white-on-black.

Oh god, this man is insisting.
The default white color on terms without being able to change faces is 
lightgrey!
White is used for bold on such stupid terms, which is a more important 
emphasis to have than white.

Or how to define bold white then?
Some better terminals, like rxvt, know how to render Courier-Bold or 
Lucida-Bold, but CMD.EXE not.
Since our default is CMD.EXE and not rxvt, your desiderations (white on 
black) are bogus.

 > A better solution would be one which 1) does *not* hardcode the
 > colors, 2) *does* use inverse video ("7") and 3) displays
 > white-on-black.

The only better solution is to use a term (rxvt) which can do this.
Use TERM=rxvt-cygwin-native then and not TERM=cygwin.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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