Re: Default colours wrong after upgrading from 1.6.2 to 1.8.0

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Chris Green wrote:

> I have just upgraded from tin 1.6.2 to version 1.8.0.  It was all
> fairly painless (and fixed my posting problem) however it's messed up
> my default colours.
>
> My standard xterm/rxvt uses a pale grey background (almost white) and
> black text.
>
> In my tinrc file I have:-
>    col_normal=-1
>    col_back=-1
> but tin has set the background to black and the foreground to white
> which is *not* what I want.  How do I get tin to leave these default
> colours alone?

That sounds like you've built the newer version against something other
than ncurses.  tin will only retain the -1's if it's using ncurses.
(It's possible that there's a bug in there somewhere, of course).

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