Re: background color grey, lines with leading space

* Martin Trautmann on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 08:22:24 +0200
> my current slrn version pre1.0.0-18
> does take a grey background color within the terminal as default.
> (MacOS 10.6 Snow Leopard)
> 
> Whenever a text line within a message does begin with blanks, the 
> background here does change to white instead.
> 
> Maybe this is due to some color definition, although I do not know which 
> one it would be and why it does use grey at all.
> 
> Example:
> 
> color article           "black"         "white"

Try:

color article           "black"         "default"

> But the more annoying problem is: the white patches of the leading 
> spaces do remain even after its message is gone. It does stick until it 
> will be overwritten by some other characters.

I think this should be solved by setting the background to
default, no conflict between Terminal and ncurses settings.

> Is this some kind of ncurses flaw? Is it due to some broken xterm-color 
> setup?

I'm still on Leopard (and mostly in xterm), but I've heard of
some problems with ncurses on Snow Leopard. Note that the
recommended setting for Apple's Terminal is TERM=nsterm or
TERM=nsterm-16color or ... but again you have to try how the
Apple shipped term entries cope.

c
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