From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27928 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 16:45:19 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 16:45:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 21058 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 1999 16:44:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8918 Received: (qmail 21050 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 16:44:51 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <991206164448.ZM24794@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:44:48 +0000 In-Reply-To: <199912061319.OAA06256@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Comments: In reply to Sven Wischnowsky "Re: Something wrong with prompt themes" (Dec 6, 2:19pm) References: <199912061319.OAA06256@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Something wrong with prompt themes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Dec 6, 2:19pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: } Subject: Re: Something wrong with prompt themes } } Andrej Borsenkow wrote: } } > Some prompt themes (e.g. elite) explicitly use characters with 8th } > bit set. This looks really ugly here - tested on dtterm and console } > (AT386 terminal - dunno if it specific to SINIX or is in common use) } > with ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-5 charsets. } } Irritating, isn't it? ;-) Those characters are just stipple-patterns in a VGA console font; the faded/shaded themes actually look best on the raw console of an x86-PC unix system such as Linux (i.e. without X11). It ought to be possible to use actual colors for the fade from one color to another, but to do so for an arbitrary pair of colors would require a ridiculously big lookup table to find the correct ANSI codes. Maybe there's some algorithmic way involving an AA that keys the ANSI codes on their RGB values ... -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com