On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in > > Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already > > reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is referred to > > as 'visual'. I'm sure it will be fixed soonish. In the meantime, I'll > > use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important > > details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude. > > Agreed, it's a bug in aptitude (it seems to work okay if you start a > terminal in reverse video mode rather than changing the colours), but > how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it ^^^^^^^^^
Every single time I do whatever makes it happen, I cannot look at the screen after a keystroke and verify my work. Single keystroke errors are, for me, a serious problem. > isn't often another alternative would be just to change that to > something that contrasts better against the black. > > Cheers, > Tom > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140312010246.gc14...@big.lan.gnu