From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs 21.2 using black on black for color terminal Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:01:44 -0400 Organization: Spirent Communications Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D5C08A8.50506@hekimian.com> References: <3D5A5D35.5060400@hekimian.com> <200208151954.g7FJsxn07974@wijiji.santafe.edu> Reply-To: joseph.buehler@spirentcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029441741 14648 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2002 20:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17fQp2-0003o9-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:02:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17fREg-0005M9-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:28:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fQq0-0001cT-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fQpK-0001WK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fQpI-0001W1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from hekimian.com ([206.205.138.10] helo=python.hekimian.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fQpH-0001Vj-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from hekimian.com (jbuehler-lt.hekimian.com [10.32.6.132]) by python.hekimian.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Q99P6GSG; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:57:29 -0400 X-Sybari-Trust: 9241ba60 b923d9bf 4738785c 00000109 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6573 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6573 Richard Stallman wrote: > Emacs 21.2 is using black on black for the default colors > in non-X11 mode when the termcap capabilites AF and BF > are present for the TERM I am using. > > Is the termcap entry a valid and correct one? I believe so... > What are these capabilities supposed to mean? Foreground and background colors. I am going to spend a bit more time narrowing this down, it may be a Cygwin curses issure, it may be emacs, it may be termcap/terminfo... Joe Buehler