Re: brightwhite foreground color

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:25:49 -0500, Fleet Teachout wrote:

> Is there any way to make the "normal" foreground color bright white.  I
> use a black background and the "white" foreground color is so dim I have
> a hard time reading the messages. (I'm 69 with a cataract on one eye -
> dimmness may not lie entirely with pine.)

	Dunno if anyone here has noticed my concurrent thread on alpine-
info about spellchecking badness.It just turned up a new weirdness which 
may just possibly be relevant here.

	I have a gnome terminal profile set for remote email, which at 
home has dark text on a pale pastel background; when I ssh into my remote 
domain, commanding "alpine" there suddenly turns it to white text on 
black -- but somewhat faded, or washed out. (I need to tweak my remote 
alpine color settings, but haven't gotten a round tuit.) 

	When I then tell alpine to send, it jumps into the spellchecker 
-- still white on black, but suddenly much sharper and contrastier.

	My very tentative hypothesis: by alternately tweaking the gnome-
terminal colors at home and the alpine colors on the remote, it may be 
possible to get all sorts of surprises that neither alone manages to make 
this monitor do. 

	Of course, you have to be doing your mail remotely ....

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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