Re: [vile] Colour problem with vile on upgrade from Xubuntu 13.10 to Xubuntu 14.04

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 01:42:57PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
[snip]
> > 
> > With 'set fcolor=black' added to my .vilerc it's not a big problem but
> > there's definitely something wrong.  I've not yet built xvile for the
> > new system, if anything useful/odd appears then I'll report it.
> 
> oh - I had thought you were talking about xvile (since that seems to be where 
> you discuss
> problems most).  For either, a problem on the first line _could_ be from 
> having built with
> external filters (that's the default because flex's behavior is an extension).
> 
I didn't explicitly select external filters when building, just perl
and ncurses is about it.


> Offhand, the last change I made in vile related to color was this (from 9.8l):
> 
>       + minor fix to tcap.c to restore colors after completing a loop which
>         turns off attributes.  The directory.pm script caused the driver to
>         reset reverse-video and bold, but the driver was restoring colors
>         only after the first reset.
> 
> Outside vile: each new version of vte (gnome-terminal - which I recall that 
> you use)
> provides a new set of bugs.  If that's the cause, I may find a workaround for 
> it.
> You can quickly check that with xterm, of course (they have #297 which hasn't 
> any
> color-related issues reported against it).
> 
OK, I'll check that tomorrow, it's getting on now and I've had a
horrible cold so need my sleep! :-)


> In either case, I'll work through the setup, so that I can build the harder 
> stuff
> (xterm, vile, lynx, ncurses), which will give me packages for vile which you 
> might use
> for comparison.
> 

Thanks for all your efforts.

-- 
Chris Green