Re: LYNX-DEV FONT color tagging

[Wayne Buttles]

On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > I thought the color ncurses was still just a patch and SLang was the only
> > way to get color.  It would have been nice to have color in the first
> > Win32 version, but SLang wouldn't compile and I wanted a pure 2.7.
>
> it'd be interesting to get ncurses to build on Win32, but I don't know that
> anyone's tried.
> 
> However, my impression of this discussion is that the Win32 support is being
> done in a relative vacuum -- I'd recommend making it integrate with one or
> the other of the existing or (RP's) proposed scheme.  I think that's Larry's
> point as well.
> 

I had no intention of adding color myself.  I have compiled with -DNCURSES
and -DFANCY_CURSES even though the Win32 version uses PDCurses and I
suspect that any ncurses color support will easily work.  I was just
clarifying that 2-7 had color only for SLang. 

Wayne

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