Re: [vile] Wrong background colour in vile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> I'm using vile on a new (to me) Linux shell service via an ssh
> connection in an rxvt window.
>
> After setting the vile.keywords file correctly I now get the colours I
> expect but all of the background is set black rather than being
> unchanged (pale grey).  How do I tell vile (or the terminal) not to
> change the background colour when the foreground colour is changed?

It sounds as if the terminfo ($TERM) that you're using doesn't have the 
features that vile is looking for to implement "default" color.  That
would be (using infocmp to look) something like

        op=\E[39;49m,

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