[Lynx-dev] Re: enable color style in windows version

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> > > > > 20060921 16:56 -0400, Thomas Dickey >>>>
> Does this occur after the past month's changes?
> <<<<<<<<
> With 2.8.6dev.18.  (Doug Kaufman offered me it to try saying that it was
> not fully tested.)
>
> Now I see something new, I bring up the color-style configuration, do SHELL,
> right away "exit", and after drawing anew, all the color is of an ordinary
> DOS screen aside from the top and bottom lines and anything highlighted by
> search, to wit, lightgray on black.

That was the bug reported and fixed here:

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.6pre.4a.patch.gz

> By the way, how are the color-style mock elements "default" and "normal"
> used, and what are the colors "default" and "normal"?

"default" applies to things that are not colored (such as the background), 
and "normal" applies to tags that are not otherwise colored.  That sounds 
vague - it's what I recall.

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