On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:33:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > the problem is that "black" is an explicit color, and if the terminal
> > doesn't do back-color-erase (bce), then the (n)curses/slang library will
> > paint cells that are black. If you chose "default" and used mutt linked
> > appropriately with ncurses/slang, then it could clear the background rather
> > than paint it.
>
> OK, but "default" does not work with "rxvt -bg white -fg black". So,
but it does (I'm not sure why you say it doesn't).
of course I normally use xterm.
> this is not a good solution. Perhaps the problem is due to the fact
> that the screen terminfo doesn't have bce, though the real terminal
> has one. Perhaps I should create a screen-bce, based on screen. What
> do you think?
screen is aware of bce, because it looks in the original termcap for the
corresponding data. (I've seen that recent versions of screen can be
configured to use bce, but haven't tested it to see how well it works).
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