From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 2 06:25:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19963 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 06:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19955 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 06:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id PAA05672; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:25:09 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:17:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Andrew Kosyakov cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: Console driver (was: Problems with irq 9(2)?) In-Reply-To: <199807021310.RAA00789@guinnes.tangram.spb.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's much worse if these 4 characters happen to be widely used letters > in your charset. Yes, I know I can load fonts for another charset and then > use screen map, but somewhy I like the idea of inverted block character > cursor much more. > > > Third, it was done by "popular demand", so there is use for it. > > Fourth, it was fun doing :) > It would be really "popular" to be able to customize this feature :) I'll have a look this weekend. While we are customising: - The color should be customisable as well. - The color should of course be transparent, so a red cursor will give you a pink character when you are over a blue character on white background. Gee, we can have lots of discussions about the color scheme... :) Nick. STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, Italy building: 27A tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message