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MS-DOS color issues
From: |
Tim Van Holder |
Subject: |
MS-DOS color issues |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:40:15 +0100 |
Hi,
just a couple of questions & comments regarding
emacs & DOS/tty colors:
* What's the rationale behind using black-on-light-gray as
defaults for MS-DOS? DOS is not an xterm, so it seems
more logical to use the normal *nix tty default (white
on black). That, or using the current foreground &
background active in DOS.
* rgb.txt seems to be incomplete, or the color name matching
routine does not match that used by X; I took my GNU/Linux
customization settings and tried them under DOS; most
worked reasonably as expected, but other did not.
Examples:
- font-lock-comment-face was PaleViolet, but this color
is apparently unknown, resulting in the default
foreground color (white, in my case)
- ediff's highlighting faces had their background set to
PaleWhite, resulting in the default background (black,
in my case), which in combination with 'Black' being
foreground color yielded unreadable text).
In both cases, simply changing the color name helped,
but color names valid under X should be valid elsewhere
as well (which is why rgb.txt is included in the first
place, right?).
Please CC: me on replies, as I'm not on this list.
- MS-DOS color issues,
Tim Van Holder <=
Re: MS-DOS color issues, Miles Bader, 2001/10/28