Re: [patch] selected/context colors

[Charles Levert]

* On Tuesday 2005-11-15 at 23:06:46 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Charles Levert wrote:
> > Please check that all colors as well as the various
> > separators are ok.
> 
> Phew...  I can't imagine ever wanting to use all those colours.  
> That the file name is now different from the file contents, that's 
> pleasing.  But when selected lines differ from context lines, it 
> already becomes carnival: more confusing than helpful.

That's

   -- why it's user-configurable;
   -- one reason sl= and cx= are empty by default;
   -- why the --color option is off by default!

> But the colourings that I'm likely appear to use work fine: file 
> name, line number, matched text.

> BTW, when using --color=always and piping the output to 'less', text 
> in a line containing a coloured word cannot be searched and found.  

I assume you are already using "less -R".
(Avoid "less -r" anyway.)

Have you tried with a recent 'less' version,
such as 385-cl4 or 393-cl1?


> Just a note.
> 
> > whether -v (or not -v). 
> 
> "whether or not with -v".

Ok.

> >  /* Other colors.  Defaults look damn good.  */
> 
> Please remove the strong word.

Oh, come on!  Have you never read the original
version of GNU Emacs' terminal.el?

I think XEmacs still has it:

   
<http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/os-utils/terminal.el?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>