Request for testing: xterm 191

Mike A. Harris mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Sun Jun 27 07:26:09 UTC 2004


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Satish Balay wrote:

>>> If you are an xterm user using Fedora Core 1 or 2, please upgrade
>>> to this xterm release and test it as much as possible.
>>
>> Trying it on FC1 - The first thing I noticed is - the 'blue' color
>> used by 'ls --color=auto' for 'dir' listings is different (a bit
>> lighter shade. Not sure if this is a bug - but don't mind this new
>> color.
>>
>> I still have the old xterms running - so I could compare..
>
>Same color shifts in emacs/pine.
>
>And in 'emacs -nw' the status bar (or whatever) shows the filename in
>'reverse colors' - with blue background with old xterm. With new xterm
>- the filename is just bold. I guss I like the new one better.

Yeah, I believe bold, underline and italic should all look 
"correct" now, instead of emulated with color or reverse video.  
Wether that is desireable to everyone or not is another question, 
but it seems sane to me.  ;o)





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