Re: color names

Hello Joe,

 On Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 17:15:30 +0200, Joe Koenig wrote:

> please enlighten me on the intrinsic logic of the SLRN color handling.

    When a terminal has 8 colors, Slrn can combine colors #0 to #7 with
the /blink/ attribute to get paper colors #8 to #15. However this trick
is terminal-dependant: Some then do bright paper, others do blink, and
sometimes it's configurable. To suppress any risk of annoying flashes,
Slrn has the use_blink variable set to off by default on color
terminals.

    When a terminal has 16 (or more) colors, Slrn doesn't use this
/blink/ trick, but directly the right upto #15 color of the palette.
Much cleaner.

    The same applies to ink colors, but the combining attribute giving
8 bright colors is then /bold/.


>| color cursor "red" "white"

    In Slrn, /white/ is a bright color, that others would call
/brightwhite/, #15 on the palette. To assign such color to the paper,
you need to either:

 · Set use_blink and setup your terminal so /blink/ does bright paper.

 · Use a 16 color terminal.


    Modern Xterms support 256 colors. Try to use a terminfo entry
declaring them all: Export TERM=xterm-256color

| $ TERM=xterm		tput colors
| 8
|
| $ TERM=xterm-256color	tput colors
| 256


Bye!	Alain.
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