Hi, On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:56:50AM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Thu, Mar 13, 2008: > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:34:18AM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > > > Yes, the defaults has not been put together with a lot of care. On the > > > other hand it is also difficult to make a configuration that will fit > > > all terminals, for example the black/green cursor you suggest above is > > > less readable for me because of transparent backgrounds. > > > > What about specifying a default foreground _and_ background color? Other > > programs (e.g. mutt) do that as well. Some configuration option could be > > provided to specify a transparent background (i.e. do not set a > > background color at all). > > > > What do you think? > > I would prefer not to change the default of using the terminal colors > for "unhighlighted" plain text. However, I have a patch in the pipe line > from Dominik Vogt, which adds support for a system-wide configuration > file. I don't know if this would provide a reasonable solution for > Debian.
In fact, that's what's done in the mutt package as well. Imho that's a nice solution - a user may still overwrite those settings using the "default" keyword. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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