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Re: 'Links' browser colors in Cygwin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:48:47PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:07:35AM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > > > which is an improvement on what you see, but not perfect.
> > >
> > > FYI that manual is for Links 0.80. Later versions disallow some color
> > > combinations that are not very readable (like dark blue on black).
> > >
> > > Marius Gedminas
> >
> > I'm running version 0.83. I'm not aware of a more recent version for
> > Cygwin in the precompiled binary form.
>
> Ah. I've been using 0.9x for ages (on Linux; MSIE suits me fine on
> Win2000). Still, the manual was for 0.82; maybe the color handling code
> changed in 0.83? I can see only 12 distinct colors out of 16 in the
> manual (2.3.2 Colour table) with 0.95.
I'd like to use 0.9x -- but I don't think it's been ported to Cygwin.
12/16 colors is better thN what I'm getting. ;)
> Looking at your colour table I can see that every bright color (red,
> yellow, fuchsia, lime, aqua) is replaced with bold white. Since those
> colours are produced by combining a colour code (\e[3xm) with bold mode
> (\e[1m) it seems that \e[1m overrides the actual colour.
>
> Could you try removing ansi.sys?
I did -- but to no avail ;( I've even changed $TERM from "cygwin" to:
pcansi/ansi/linux/cons25/etc/etc -- no joy!
> BTW Links has all terminal sequences hardcoded and doesn't use termcap
> nor terminfo, so you can ignore that line of thoughts.
Gee.... I wish I had picked up my mail sooner... ;^) I'm out of ideas, so
I'll just live with it. Thanks for your input!
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-duke
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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