* On Tuesday 2005-11-15 at 23:06:46 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Charles Levert wrote: > > Please check that all colors as well as the various > > separators are ok. > > Phew... I can't imagine ever wanting to use all those colours. > That the file name is now different from the file contents, that's > pleasing. But when selected lines differ from context lines, it > already becomes carnival: more confusing than helpful.
That's -- why it's user-configurable; -- one reason sl= and cx= are empty by default; -- why the --color option is off by default! > But the colourings that I'm likely appear to use work fine: file > name, line number, matched text. > BTW, when using --color=always and piping the output to 'less', text > in a line containing a coloured word cannot be searched and found. I assume you are already using "less -R". (Avoid "less -r" anyway.) Have you tried with a recent 'less' version, such as 385-cl4 or 393-cl1? > Just a note. > > > whether -v (or not -v). > > "whether or not with -v". Ok. > > /* Other colors. Defaults look damn good. */ > > Please remove the strong word. Oh, come on! Have you never read the original version of GNU Emacs' terminal.el? I think XEmacs still has it: <http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/os-utils/terminal.el?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>
