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

Frank Slootweg franks_cygwin@yahoo.com
Tue Apr 27 10:05:00 GMT 2004


  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 white
> text on a black background (normal text is black on white), i.e.
> 'inverse-video' and a good contrast, i.e. easy to read.
>
>   I now rebuilt (configure,/make, compile, link, etc.) the application
> on Cygwin 1.5.9. That new version displays standout mode as light-grey
> text on a dark-grey background, i.e. little contrast and very hard to
> read.
>
>   Basically I want the old behaviour (white-on-black) on Cygwin 1.5.9,
> but have no idea how/where that can be set.
>
>   Some more information: The application is started from a "Command
> Prompt" 'DOS' window, i.e. not from a (bash) shell. However when I do
> a "tput smso" in that window and then "echo text", I see the same
> behaviour (light-grey on dark-grey), so I think it is a terminfo/
> terminal issue, not a shell issue. The TERM variable is set to
> "cygwin".
>
>   Thanks in advance for any and all responses.




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