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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Tony Zorman <tonyzorman@mailbox.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
Subject: Re: Ansi-color uses the same values for fore- and background colours
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 09:51:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <034beec5-0505-a399-6f78-e162c819f1a4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6p8mn5n.fsf@hyperspace>

On 8/9/2023 5:10 AM, Tony Zorman wrote:
> by default, all of the `ansi-color-«COLOUR»' faces (defined in
> `ansi-color.el') set the foreground and background colour to the exact
> same value.
[snip]
> 
> ---
> 
> […] this can result in hard to read text; for example:
> 
>      https://i.imgur.com/nZsh00N.png
> 
> Notice the blue background in the bottom left corner.

Have you customized your settings for "man" somehow (or maybe changed 
your pager)? I don't see colors that look like that at all. In fact, I 
only see black and white text (or vice versa), as I'd normally expect 
when looking at "man" output. It's all perfectly easy to read on my end.

If you *have* customized some of your settings, maybe you just need to 
tweak them so that they don't produce unreadable output.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-09 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-09 12:10 Ansi-color uses the same values for fore- and background colours Tony Zorman
2023-08-09 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 16:18   ` Tony Zorman
2023-08-09 16:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 16:46   ` Jim Porter
2023-08-09 16:51 ` Jim Porter [this message]
2023-08-10  3:59   ` Tony Zorman

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