[bug #64720] www.tmac.in: blue text on a black background is illegible

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #64720 (project groff):

Putting the default color in a system or user file overlooks the fact that a
single user can run multiple terminals simultaneously all with different color
schemes.  Still, not every user will do this, and giving users more control is
usually better.

The various colors my system defines for different file types in $LS_COLORS
all work on black or white backgrounds, so choosing a default color that works
in these two common situations would also be good.

But no matter what color is the default, it might still end up matching the
background color of the terminal.  As I observed about grotty output in bug
#64624, "Without a way to query a terminal's color scheme, blindly hard-coding
a background color would seem to have limited utility, but users can always
change fore- and background colors in tandem."  Changing both colors in this
situation would be ugly, though.


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