Re: White fg color, black bg color, though terminal is opposite in MSYS2

Ivan Vorontsov <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Oct 2024 22:23:45 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.editors.nano.general
Message-ID <Zv2dwRyeA83jBmk2@DESKTOP-97PAREG>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 11:50:41AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> Op 01-10-2024 om 11:54 schreef Ivan Vorontsov:
> > I installed nano supplied by MSYS2. I built it myself. I built 7.2
> > version. Result is the same, white on black. Now I think it's not nano
> > problem.
>
> How then was it possible that nano-7.2 supplied by MSYS2 previously
> _did_ use black on white?  Can you roll back from 8.2 to 7.2 to check?

I downgraded package to 7.2 version. Nothing changed.

> Or maybe something else was upgraded at the same time as nano?
> Maybe ncurses?  Or terminfo?  Or mintty?

Mintty and ncurses are upgraded as well. So, I decided to downgrade ncurses
first and it worked. I suppose that's it.

> What is TERM set to by default in mintty?

xterm

Thank you, Benno.