Subject: Highlighting in Pine

From: [email-masked] (Margrete Raaum)
Date: 18 Apr 1995 13:57:13 GMT

I have a problem with highlighting in pine
and a braille display. The display can show what
for instance Word Perfect calls "highlighted", 
"underlined" and "invers video". Pine is ascii-
based and we are having a hard time getting
the braille display to show what is highlighted 
in pine, which is not so strange as I suppose
it is only a matter of escape-sequences.

Does anybody have an idea as to how to solve 
this problem?
Are there any blind people using Pine out there?
(how exactly does pine highlight?)

Margrete
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*** Murgo optimo maximo

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:47:01 -0700 (PDT)

> (how exactly does pine highlight?)

If pine is using termcap it uses the so and se attributes from the 
termcap entry to start and end highlighting.  These are typically set to 
the ANSI escape sequences

    ESC [ 7 m      to go into highlighting mode, and
    ESC [ m        to go back out of highlighting mode.

They could be set up differently.  I also want to mention that the next 
version of Pine will have a couple minor improvements that should help 
blind users, like a show-cursor feature to get the cursor to move to a 
more interesting place.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle