Reformatted excerpts from Carl Worth's message of 2009-09-08: > So if I'm understanding that correctly, that's 16 colors available for > the foreground, but only 8 for the background. That's frustrating.
Yup. Curses is happy to welcome you to 1982! > Such a limited color selection is almost unimaginable with hardware > capability today. FWIW, most terminal emulators allow you to tweak the actual colors that the curses colors refer to. So you have some flexibility about the actual colors, just a small palette. > (I do see references to "xterm-256color"[*] terminal definitions. > Could sup start depending on things like that? Are there users of sup > using the Linux console or so, and does that support 256-color escape > codes?). I'm not sure. I suspect no, but I would be interested in learning more. > I should figure out how to make the underline vs. color choice for > highlighting to be a configuration option in order to propose this as > a proper patch. I think the only patch I would accept at this point for tweaking the highlight would be a new hook. > Of course, one way is to go away from a curses-based interface. That > might very well make sense in the future where sup is implemented as a > protocol and we can easily have multiple clients. That is one of the goals. > For me, a graphical client won't be of any interest unless it allows > full keyboard control exactly as sup does, but if it does that and > renders text as well as my terminal, I could imagine using it. I agree completely. -- William <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
