OpenEuphoria

Re: ed background colour

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Oct 09, 2006
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Kenneth Rhodes wrote:
> 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > 
> > Jules Davy wrote:
> > > I use ed and would prefer the background to be BRIGHT_WHITE for better
> > > contrast
> > > with the default syntax colours, but after changing it remains WHITE. Is
> > > this
> > > a limitation of ed?
> > 
> > I think it may be a limitation of the PC hardware,
> > or DOS, or the Linux text console.
> > I don't think the BRIGHT *background* colors are fully supported. 
> > Anyway, my impression was that a dull white
> > or gray background made the foreground colors look better.
> 
> Rob, I think the Euphoria documentation should reflect this
> problem somewhere.

Yes, it should. 
I just added a note to bk_color().

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com