From: Marlon <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Rewrite of zsh-newuser-install (Mikael's subthread)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 18:29:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E3668299-C629-45EF-A50D-8B4F04611900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9B97A4D-3406-449E-86FD-6CC5DFC21935@gmail.com>
> On 7 Apr 2021, at 17:28, Marlon <marlon.richert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> # Add some basic command line highlighting.
>>> # See http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html#Character-Highlighting
>>> zle_highlight=(
>>> isearch:fg=black,bg=yellow # Matched search text
>>> paste:none # Yanked/pasted text
>>> region:bg=blue # Selected text
>>> special:fg=cyan,bold # Unprintable characters
>>> suffix:bg=blue # Auto-removable suffix inserted by completion
>>> )
>>
>> There are many colors, why use the same for the region and the suffix?
>
> Because it’s familiar from the GUI world: If text looks selected, then you expect it to be replaced when you type over it.
Another reason: Because others in this thread have told me to avoid using anything else than the 8 basic terminal colors.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-09 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-05 19:44 Mikael Magnusson
2021-04-05 21:01 ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-04-05 21:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-07 13:44 ` Marlon
2021-04-07 16:24 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-10 11:23 ` Marlon
2021-04-10 20:46 ` dana
2021-04-10 21:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-10 22:03 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-04-11 11:38 ` Marlon Richert
2021-04-13 14:49 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-13 14:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-07 14:28 ` Marlon
2021-04-07 15:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-07 16:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-07 18:15 ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-04-07 18:50 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-07 20:08 ` Arseny Maslennikov
2021-04-09 20:07 ` Marlon
2021-04-09 22:04 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-04-09 23:04 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-09 23:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-13 15:00 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-09 23:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-10 7:44 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-04-09 23:23 ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-04-10 7:45 ` Marlon Richert
2021-04-09 15:29 ` Marlon [this message]
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