Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx slang vs (n)curses

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Rob Partington - Admin wrote:

> My code doesn't add color support for ncurses the same as the vanilla
> slang version does - it provides for color styles (IMO more powerful than
> the vanilla slang version).  The vanilla slang color support is trickery -
> underline is mapped to color 1, bold to color 2, underline+bold to 3 etc.
> 
> You can get the same effect by configuring your terminal program (much
> like Fote).  It's a nice hack for people without configurable terminal
> emulators though (how *do* you do that on a Linux terminal?)

By creating a custom terminfo file, I would assume...

bold=<Linux console's escape to set color blue>

etc.

  Klaus

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