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From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] Change color of 'highlight' indicator in inbox view?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:30:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252506333-sup-9244@masanjin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252442174-sup-1472@yoom.home.cworth.org>

Reformatted excerpts from Carl Worth's message of 2009-09-08:
> So if I'm understanding that correctly, that's 16 colors available for
> the foreground, but only 8 for the background. That's frustrating.

Yup. Curses is happy to welcome you to 1982!

> Such a limited color selection is almost unimaginable with hardware
> capability today.

FWIW, most terminal emulators allow you to tweak the actual colors that
the curses colors refer to. So you have some flexibility about the
actual colors, just a small palette.

> (I do see references to "xterm-256color"[*] terminal definitions.
> Could sup start depending on things like that? Are there users of sup
> using the Linux console or so, and does that support 256-color escape
> codes?).

I'm not sure. I suspect no, but I would be interested in learning more.

> I should figure out how to make the underline vs. color choice for
> highlighting to be a configuration option in order to propose this as
> a proper patch.

I think the only patch I would accept at this point for tweaking the
highlight would be a new hook.

> Of course, one way is to go away from a curses-based interface. That
> might very well make sense in the future where sup is implemented as a
> protocol and we can easily have multiple clients.

That is one of the goals.

> For me, a graphical client won't be of any interest unless it allows
> full keyboard control exactly as sup does, but if it does that and
> renders text as well as my terminal, I could imagine using it.

I agree completely.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>


      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-09 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-06  9:42 Richard Sandilands
2009-09-06 13:07 ` William Morgan
2009-09-08 20:50   ` Carl Worth
2009-09-09 14:30     ` William Morgan [this message]

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