From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 5 01:58:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA29715 for current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 01:58:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA29710 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 01:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA29558 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:52:40 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sat, 5 Apr 97 12:52:39 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00297; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 13:48:36 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 13:48:32 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: modify termcap to support both A[FB] and S[fb]... In-Reply-To: <19970404235636.44208@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Sb (setb) stays as "set background color" > > AB (setab) stays as "set ANSI background color" > > > > similar things for Sf/AF > > could you point me to the document which says this?? I like to make sure > this is the case... all terminfo_examples.doc says is: > set_a_foreground "setaf" str "AF" > or > set_foreground "setf" str "Sf" man terminfo in SVr4 and ncurses include/Caps (not FreeBSD version) > > The difference is that S* entries could put any color (like user-defined) > > while A* entries restricts to ANSI colors only. > > hmm... but what about the terminals were you define the colors to be ansi > colors (like I've almost done with my tek)... also.. do you propose to > make ALL applications understand the difference between the two?? I mean termcap way of redefining colors only (this capability usually taking 3 parameters like RGB or HSL) > you CAN change the console's colors... maybe not through anything that > FreeBSD provides... but you can do this... So, it will be your responsibility... > also.. are you going to update ansi's entry too?? All incorrect Sf/Sb just changed to AF/AB, I don't add new ones. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/