Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx slang vs (n)curses

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:

> Rob Partington - Admin <address@hidden> wrote:
> >My code doesn't add color support for ncurses the same as the vanilla
> >slang version does - it provides for color styles (IMO more powerful than
> >the vanilla slang version).  The vanilla slang color support is trickery -
> >underline is mapped to color 1, bold to color 2, underline+bold to 3 etc.
> 
>       I presume the colorization and styling will work the same
> when the RP code is compiled and linked with either ncurses or slang,
> not the nicer, new way with ncurses, and the not as nice, old way
> with slang.  Is that right?

Even better would be to have a choice...

I think it is an advantage that I don't have to (if I don't want to)
specify color pairs on a HTML element by element basis, but can do a
less refined but more global translation (rather like what Fote 
described for his settings).

  Klaus

PS. regarding the nonsense I wrote earlier I forgot to explicitly say
that I am sorry for any confusion I may have caused, and if this was
a newsgroup I would certainly go and cancel that message...



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