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Re: gfxterm distinction between fg color and cursor color


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: gfxterm distinction between fg color and cursor color
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:48:43 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:13:31PM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:40 +0200
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Why does gfxterm make a distinction between foreground color and
> > cursor color?  Do we really want this?
> > 
> > Currently, the variable-based hooks for changing colors have no
> > effect in cursor color because of this.
> > 
> > How about supressing separate handling of cursor color, and simply
> > use the foreground color to draw it?
> > 
> > Or maybe it'd be better to have setcolor() set cursor color
> > implicitly?
> 
> I think it would probably be fine to simply use the foreground color as
> the cursor color.

Well, it took me a while but I finally got a minute to do this.  Here's the
patch.

-- 
Robert Millan

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