Re: lynx-dev Problems with lss - color style support

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:

> >> My questions:
> >>
> >> 1) Is there a way to configure lynx (compiled with lss support) so that
> >> the general background
> >> gets a different color than black? (If not, I think this should be
> >> possible in future releases)
> >
> >It should be possible, see the blue-background example, but you may have
> >to add the background color explicitly to all styles in the .lss, and also
> >specify a style for "normal" explicitly.
> >
> >You may use "default" in place of a color, but how that works out may
> >depend on terminfo and ncurses version used.
> 
> The patch I sent several days ago:
> 
>   http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0799/msg00546.html
> 
> enables exactly this (among many other things): 

Please clarify.  What do you mean with "exactly this"?
Are you saying what I have described does not work without being
"enabled" by your patch?

> you set
> 
> default:normal:brightcyan:blue

If I understand your patch right, it changes the meaning of "default"
in the place of a fg or bg color.  Right?  If yes, this seems to
conflict with the previous meaning of "default".  AFAIK, "default"
means the same as in the non-lss color specifications: the "default"
bg (or fg) as determined by ncurses and special terminfo capabilities
if available.  (Tom knows more about that...)

> as the last line of .lss file.

Does it have to be the last line?  Why?
And could you add some more description?

   Klaus