On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:04:53AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:23:06AM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > Alas! Will Yardley spake thus: > > > if you're using xterm, you probably want to set TERM to xterm-xfree86. > > > > For the record, I use xterm's exclusively on my system, and I've got > > $TERM set to xterm-color, and everything colors just great. Mutt, Vim, > > everything ;) > > > > Just a quick question for you - is the background on your xterm dark or > light? I am asking because vim sets background correctly for me in the > console, but fails to detect the black background in an xterm/konsole > window. The same goes for mutt, it colorizes as though the background > was light colored.
generally it _cannot_ detect whether the background is light or dark. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
