[OT] RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-05-04 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alejandro López-Valencia Sent: 30 April 2004 19:55 [Lots of idiocy deleted. I will not answer to kindergarten frolics.] Then what's this, if not an answer? Mr. Korn, You couldn't take a hint to move the argument to a private

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-05-03 Thread Frank Slootweg
Reini Urban wrote: 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

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-05-03 Thread Reini Urban
Frank Slootweg schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: 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

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-05-02 Thread Reini Urban
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

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-30 Thread Frank Slootweg
Thanks all for your responses. Barry, you have given me a workaround and enabled me to find a second workaround! If people still want to try to find a better solution, I have 'attached' instructions on how to (try to) reproduce the problem. Barry Buchbinder wrote: [deleted] It is a fact

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-30 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
[Lots of idiocy deleted. I will not answer to kindergarten frolics.] Mr. Korn, You couldn't take a hint to move the argument to a private conversation and rather chose to make another fine display of your poor attempts at being sarcastic, efforts that, for as long as I have being a witness,

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Owen Rees
--On Wednesday, April 28, 2004 16:54:37 -0500 Alejandro López-Valencia wrote: At 07:56 a.m. 28/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: Is there a place where all these (I assume ANSI) escape sequences for colors are listed? When I have that information, I can probably untic an existing terminfo entry,

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Alejandro López-Valencia wrote: The one I use came with the documentation of an ftp/sftp client I use, yafc. Tis information is very hard to come by if one is in a bind, so I'll include it here. Yafc's info file says: Really? Google for ansi escape sequences and you'll get dozens of hits

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Frank Slootweg
Thanks, Alejandro and Hannu, for your additional responses. I am again getting closer, but still not there. Please bear with me. At the time, I did not quite understand this part from Alejandro: A OK. In my experience, you can set the fg/bg colors the way you want A by modifying the

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Frank Slootweg wrote: [2] For some reason *DOS* echo, type and copy ... con commands *display* [3] the escape characters instead of executing them, so I had to use echo(1). If someone knows a way to let *DOS* commands execute escape sequences insteas of displaying them, then please let me

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
At 06:38 a.m. 29/04/2004, Brian Dessent wrote: The one I use came with the documentation of an ftp/sftp client I use, yafc. Tis information is very hard to come by if one is in a bind, so I'll include it here. Yafc's info file says: Really? Google for ansi escape sequences and you'll get

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
-Original Message- From: Frank Slootweg Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode? Thanks, Alejandro and Hannu, for your additional responses. I am again getting closer, but still not there.

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
At 10:11 a.m. 29/04/2004, you wrote: Still working in increasing my meanness to the level that make justice to my despise of low-IQ Internet users. And on remembering that this keyboard is slower than my fingers... :-) -- Alejandro López-Valencia http://dradul.tripod.com/ The limits of my

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
At 08:27 a.m. 29/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: Also Alejandro's escape sequences do not work for me. \e[00;30m gives me black text on a white background (i.e. no change) and \e[01;30m gives me light-grey text on a white background. 01 is Bold, so according to Alejandro that should give me white

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alejandro López-Valencia Sent: 29 April 2004 16:11 At 06:38 a.m. 29/04/2004, Brian Dessent wrote: The one I use came with the documentation of an ftp/sftp client I use, yafc. Tis information is very hard to come by if one is

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Alejandro López-Valencia wrote: If you really read my sentence above you would have recognized the sentence This information is very hard to come by if one is in a bind. Which idiomatic USA English for You never find this information in time when you really need it. Am I clear, or are you in

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-28 Thread Frank Slootweg
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: [deleted] On Behalf Of Frank Slootweg FWIW: $ cat ~/.Xdefaults # XTerm == rxvt as rxvt simulates xterm rxvt.background:black rxvt.foreground:grey rxvt.visualBell:true ... I know these things get explained in some

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-28 Thread Frank Slootweg
Alejandro López-Valencia wrote: At 03:05 a.m. 27/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: Please? On April 20, I wrote: How can I set the colors of terminfo's standout (smso, so) mode? I have a terminfo application (tin, the newsreader) which, as far as [snip] I now rebuilt

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-28 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
At 04:33 a.m. 28/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: So I think the standout/'inverse video' colors are set somewhere else, but I do not know where. That is the problem, and is confirmed by the fact that tput smso shows the same behaviour. (BTW, the normal, non-inverse-video, colors for a Command

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-28 Thread Frank Slootweg
Alejandro López-Valencia wrote: At 04:33 a.m. 28/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: So I think the standout/'inverse video' colors are set somewhere else, but I do not know where. That is the problem, and is confirmed by the fact that tput smso shows the same behaviour. (BTW, the normal,

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: Christopher Faylor Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:48 AM On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: cygwin-owner-SPLAT-cygwin-BOP-com [mailto:cygwin-owner-ETC-]On Behalf There is no reason to inform people that cygwin-owner was somehow involved

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: Frank Slootweg Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:20 AM Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: [deleted] On Behalf Of Frank Slootweg FWIW: $ cat ~/.Xdefaults # XTerm == rxvt as rxvt simulates xterm rxvt.background:black rxvt.foreground:grey

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-28 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
At 07:56 a.m. 28/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: Is there a place where all these (I assume ANSI) escape sequences for colors are listed? When I have that information, I can probably untic an existing terminfo entry, modify it and tic it back to another name and use that. The one I use came with

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-27 Thread Frank Slootweg
Please? On April 20, I wrote: How can I set the colors of terminfo's standout (smso, so) mode? I have a terminfo application (tin, the newsreader) which, as far as I can tell, uses standout mode to highlight things. I first used this on the old Cygwin B20 release and that gave

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-27 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Slootweg FWIW: $ cat ~/.Xdefaults # XTerm == rxvt as rxvt simulates xterm rxvt.background:black rxvt.foreground:grey rxvt.visualBell:true ... I know these things get explained in some man/info-page that

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-27 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
At 03:05 a.m. 27/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: Please? On April 20, I wrote: How can I set the colors of terminfo's standout (smso, so) mode? I have a terminfo application (tin, the newsreader) which, as far as [snip] I now rebuilt (configure,/make, compile, link, etc.) the

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: cygwin-owner-SPLAT-cygwin-BOP-com [mailto:cygwin-owner-ETC-]On Behalf There is no reason to inform people that cygwin-owner was somehow involved in this email transaction. Please do not include email addresses in the

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-20 Thread Karl M
B20 was great back then wasn't it! ...Karl From: Frank Slootweg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode? Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:24:11 +0200 How can I set the colors of terminfo's standout (smso, so) mode? I have a terminfo