Re: Righthand side scrollbar color

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Aug 2020 12:18:20 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.general
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Op 23-08-2020 om 08:09 schreef Benno Schulenberg:
> Op 22-08-2020 om 20:33 schreef Mouad Papillon:
>> How do I change the righthand side scrollbar color in nano editor?
> 
> You can't.  Not yet, at least.

Attached proof-of-concept works fine on xterm and urxvt, but makes
a mess on Xfce Terminal (and probably any other VTE-based terminal).

Now I remember why I avoided adding a configurable color for the
scrollbar.  :|  It seems to be a bug in VTE, but I don't know how
to work around it.

Benno

use-color-for-the-indicator.patch (text/x-patch, 462 B)

diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index a174e37b..1ad3a481 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -2882,7 +2882,7 @@ void draw_scrollbar(void)
 		highest = editwinrows;
 
 	for (int row = 0; row < editwinrows; row++) {
-		bardata[row] = ' '|((row >= lowest && row <= highest) ? A_REVERSE : 0);
+		bardata[row] = ' '|((row >= lowest && row <= highest) ? interface_color_pair[SELECTED_TEXT] : 0);
 		mvwaddch(edit, row, COLS - 1, bardata[row]);
 	}
 }

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