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Subject: Re: Color Schemes
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:

>> AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean 
>> is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job 
>> to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwin's 
>> console-handling code to look up the current console's current 
>> palette and attempt some kind of best-fit matching, at least in 
>> theory, but there's still the old SHTDI problem there....
> 
> [...] and I am not aware of any way to examine the terminal's 
> "palette", nor should you need to. If a user wants to fiddle with 
> these, it is his responsibility to keep things legible.

Huh?

$ grep color ~/.Xdefaults
*color0:        #000000
*color1:        #D1BFB1
*color2:        #99CCCC
*color3:        #C8B27F
*color4:        #8DB6CD
*color5:        #CC99CC
*color6:        #A8A8D9
*color7:        #7697A7
*color8:        #000000
*color9:        #80A0B0
*color10:       #99CCCC
*color11:       #40677A
*color12:       #8DB6CD
*color13:       #CC99CC
*color14:
*color15:       #87CEFF
*colorBD:       #8DB6CD
*colorUL:       #C8B27F
*cursorColor:   #84A9A9

Or am I missing something?

-- 
George

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