Re: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal

[Jim Kleckner]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:

* Jim Kleckner (03-01-21 21:17 +0100)

I have mostly gotten my bash colors to display properly with black on white
which I find considerably more pleasing than white on black [...]

Programs like info, man, and cpan, however, do not know about these switched
default colors.

I have switched to rxvt because of color problems with IPython and haven't turned back.

Have a look at the man page and my .Xdefaults[1]...

Thank you for the suggestion.
I'm currently using the bare cmd.exe of Win2k and didn't want to have to start X11 just to get a terminal emulator. It seems heavy - is this really necessary? There is probably some magic thing to say in inputrc or terminfo to specify these colors but it has been 20 years since I waded into termcap/terminfo. The manual mentions set_foreground and set_background but it requires a lot of digging to sort out. I was hoping someone could point the way or say "there be dragons".

Jim



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