Re: white-on-black or black-on-white?
* Ian Collier <Ian.Collier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [09-11-07 08:48]:
> Sorry if it wasn't clear - I was talking about the defaults for xterm
> (in the absence of mutt) in the above sentence.
Yes, I didn't understand that, s/xterm/mutt :^(
> > > "mutt -n -F /dev/null"
>
> > Now you have "normal", ie: no rc file influence.
>
> That's the idea, yes.
we agree here
> > > Type ":color normal green black" and now it's green on black. All
> > > fine so far.
>
> > BUT, "normal green black" per the fine manual attaches the meaning of
> > "normal" to the "object defined (type of information)"
>
> Here, "normal" is a technical term which means "any text not covered by
> the other color definitions". I'm well aware of what the command does,
> but it's not strictly relevant to the colour-switching behaviour.
for mutt, yes, but not considering xterm....
> > > It also turns out that specifying "default"
*default* for mutt
> > > for any one colour switches the whole of mutt from the default
> > > white-on-black
*default* for xterm, not mutt
> > > into black-on-white, except where colour settings have been specified.
> > > I find that a bit weird.
>
> > hopefully explained :^)
>
> Sorry, I must have missed it. :-(
*default* is the definition of mutt's color table, not xterm's, and
mutt prevails.
better ??
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