From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 586 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2015 01:51:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19897 Received: (qmail 8497 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2015 01:51:20 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 02:51:19 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area Message-ID: <20150223015118.GA17402@xvii.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <20150222132310.GA18377@wintermute> <150222111007.ZM18687@torch.brasslantern.com> <54EA6200.1040007@eastlink.ca> <4348921424650217@web10g.yandex.ru> <150222171418.ZM19031@torch.brasslantern.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <150222171418.ZM19031@torch.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer-Info: http://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23-6424-vl-r76280 (2015-02-19) On 2015-02-22 17:14:18 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Many terminal emulators (more modern than xterm; e.g. gnome-terminal and > PuTTY, among others) provide GUI menus for doing this sort of thing. In > gnome-terminal it's Terminal -> Change Profile, you can set up as many > different profiles as you like with different font/color/lines/columns > etc. combinations, and switch among them as necessary. > > Of course "st" is designed to be extremely simple/lightweight, so it does > not have that sort of feature available. There doesn't need to be a GUI. Implementing an option to choose the background color should be very simple. Or a private escape sequence to change the default background color (I've said "default background", not the current background as changed by setab or setb). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)