Re: [vile] Wrong background colour in vile

[Thomas Dickey]

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

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:57:58AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 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,
> Is that the terminfo on the remote system?  I'm using exactly the same X
> display (server) and terminal (rxvt on Solaris) at the 'viewing' end for
> both the old system that works and the new system that doesn't.

yes - I don't have the source-code at hand, but don't recall any 
compile-time dependencies for the terminfo/termcap drivers.  If you're
using ncurses for the screen-driver (I seem to recall you mentioning 
that), it still should work consistently.  So I'm thinking in terms of the 
runtime (terminfo entry, etc).  For instance, you should be able to

        :set bcolor=default

and see the terminal's default color.  Though perhaps I misinterpreted the
"pale grey".  There are a few color schemes that are defined via 
vileinit.rc, e.g., black, dark, default, light, reverse and white.
Some of those use the terminal's default background color, and some use a 
gray that corresponds to the non-bright white value.  It's been quite a 
while since I defined those, so I have to refresh my memory by doing a

        :set cs<tab>

and trying different ones to see their effect.  Perhaps your remote 
environment is using a different color-scheme value.


> Running 'infocmp' on the remote system in my rxvt window I get (along with
> lots more of course):-
>
>    op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, ri=\EM, rin=\E[%p1%dT,
>
> so it looks OK.
>
> I may have some other things to check on though as my .vilerc file
> doesn't seem to be being picked up at the moment.  I'll do some more
> checks.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
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