Re: Colours in Terminal.app

[Alexander Malmberg]

Andreas Heppel wrote:
> 
> On 2002-10-07 15:22:38 -0700 Gregory Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Andreas,
> >
> > I may be speaking a little out of turn here, but I believe that Alex had 
> > said
> > that the tools used to change colors on the command line in an X terminal
> > program (wterm, xterm) would work for Terminal.app since the code from
> > console.c (the standard GNU/Linux console) was used to implement it.
> >
> Gregory,
> which command line tools are you referring to?

Any command line tool. It's a color terminal; the programs you run in
the terminal tell the terminal what colors to use. However, that has
nothing to do with selecting stuff.

It has occurred to me that this is likely due to people using back-xlib.
Selection in terminal is drawn using NSCompositeHighlight, which is ok
in back-art (it just inverts all pixel values), but not in back-xlib
(which, iirc, does some blending thing). Since NSCompositeHighlight has
fairly undefined results, I'll change Terminal.app to draw the selection
in some other way.

- Alexander Malmberg