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LYNX-DEV `-color' option
From: |
Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
LYNX-DEV `-color' option |
Date: |
Wed, 7 May 1997 10:05:49 -0500 (CDT) |
On Wed, 7 May 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > PS: Oh, and one other thing: The comment in lynx.cfg claims
> > that -color is supported only when compiled with SVR4 curses or slang.
> > But in LYMain.c, -color and -blink are ifdef'd USE_SLANG only.
> > Is this right?
> clarification: the -color option doesn't seem to work properly, anyway, since
> I always get color with the slang version whether or not I set it. So I
> didn't
> waste time on it.
You cannot use it to turn use of color *off* if the terminal is already
recognizes as supporting color; you can use it to turn color *on* while
using a terminal type which, by its terminfo/termcap description, does not
support color (and the slang code then makes some assumptions about the
missing capabilities). It is a way to force colors on without changing
TERM (or using -term) for (for example) "vt100" emulations. The better
way would be to use a terminal type which describes all the capbilities of
the terminal correctly, but that is not always (as easily) possible.
`-color' and COLORTERM have always worked for me that way.
Klaus
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