Re: PATCH: isearch match highlighting

["Matt Wozniski" <godlygeek@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:20:01 +0100
>  Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
>  > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:49:01 -0400
>  > "Matt Wozniski" <godlygeek@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Yep, works now - and looks very nice, though I wonder if we could set
>  > > it up in a way that would let us change the fg or bg color of the
>  > > text, rather than just reverse/standout/underline?
>  >
>  > I should get around to that before long.  I don't think it should be too
>  > hard.  I'd like to use standard termcap AF/AB codes for this instead of the
>  > hacked-in (surprise!) colors we currently use in completion, but it doesn't
>  > seem to be that easy to set defaults etc. that way.  Maybe Geoff knows
>  > about this.
>
>  This seems now to be Not Necessarily Completely Broken (TM).

Seems to work quite well to me!

>  I've just remembered I haven't documented the fact that only colours 0 to
>  255 are allowed internally.  I can't be bothered to remake the patch, so
>  I'll alter that before committing.  The numbers of supported colours
>  reported by a few terminals I tried are:
>
>  xterm: 8
>  rxvt-unicode: 88
>  konsole: 8
>  gnome-terminal: 8
>  Linux console: 8
>
>  so mostly just the ANSI set.  I did try the extended colours on
>  rxvt-unicode and they seemed to work.  I have a vague feeling I saw
>  a terminal claim to support 256.

xterm-256color: 256
screen-256color: 256

Both xterm and screen can be compiled with 256 color support.
Extended colors seem to work fine in them.

~Matt

PS: Found a typo in the man page while playing with this:

Index: Doc/Zsh/zle.yo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/zle.yo,v
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diff -r1.65 zle.yo
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< by the array parameter tt(zsh_highlight), if it has been set by the user.
---
> by the array parameter tt(zle_highlight), if it has been set by the user.