On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:53:45PM -0500, Charles Krug wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:13:56PM -0500, Charles Krug wrote:
> > List:
> >
> > My colors aren't working. My choices seem to be grey on black or black on
> > black. I thought perhaps there was a problem with how I'd installed slang,
> > but slrn seems to work perfectly well with colors and things.
>
> Good news! I found something dreadfully obvious I was missing.
>
> slang requires that the COLORFGBG variable be set. Setting it fixed my
> colors.
it's claimed that slang will do the correct thing if the terminal description
is correct (without assistance from environment variables). $COLORFGBG is
really only interesting if you prefer your terminal to be some odd combination
of colors, and would like slang to know about that.
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