Hi,

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:56:50AM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Thu, Mar 13, 2008:
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:34:18AM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > > Yes, the defaults has not been put together with a lot of care. On the
> > > other hand it is also difficult to make a configuration that will fit
> > > all terminals, for example the black/green cursor you suggest above is
> > > less readable for me because of transparent backgrounds.
> > 
> > What about specifying a default foreground _and_ background color? Other
> > programs (e.g. mutt) do that as well. Some configuration option could be
> > provided to specify a transparent background (i.e. do not set a
> > background color at all).
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I would prefer not to change the default of using the terminal colors
> for "unhighlighted" plain text. However, I have a patch in the pipe line
> from Dominik Vogt, which adds support for a system-wide configuration
> file. I don't know if this would provide a reasonable solution for
> Debian.

In fact, that's what's done in the mutt package as well. Imho that's a
nice solution - a user may still overwrite those settings using the
"default" keyword.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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