Subject: Colored Pine with transparent background

From: Martin Horcicka <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:13:08 +0100 (CET)

Hi,

I use Pine 4.53 on FreeBSD in transparent Xterminal window, but when I try to
use color settings in Pine, it always sets the background to a solid color. Is
there any way to use just foreground colors with the default (transparent)
background?

Martin
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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:46:08 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Martin Horcicka wrote:

> Is there any way to use just foreground colors with the default
> transparent) background?

No.

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

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From: Nicolas Christin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:55:41 -0500 (EST)

> > Is there any way to use just foreground colors with the default

No, in the sense, "No because it is not implemented", or no, in the
sense "No because it is impossible to create such a color pair the way
pine assigns colors"?

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Nicolas

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From: Martin Horcicka <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:57:08 +0100 (CET)

> > Is there any way to use just foreground colors with the default

:-)

And is there any chance to get this feature implemented in one of the future
versions of Pine?

Martin

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:03:21 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

> sense "No because it is impossible to create such a color pair the way

I attempted to implement it but ran into problems because of the way pine
handles colors and other attributes. Surely it is a Simple Matter of
Programming, but the programming does not appear to be straightforward and
the time has not been found to do it. It is not currently in the upper
half of the list of things to do.

Steve

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From: Nicolas Christin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:59:15 -0500 (EST)

> half of the list of things to do.

That's certainly understandable. The reason I was asking was just so
that other people know whether it was doable or not. It probably is, so
nothing prevents anyone (meaning, an external contributor) to try and
write a patch for pine that does just that.

Best,
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Nicolas

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From: Susan Dorsey <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:13:34 -0700 (MST)

Hey,

On 4.51 the insert message into another message function (^R ^W msg#) now
indents with > by default.  This didn't happen in the last version I
built, 4.44.  Haven't checked 4.53 yet, but soon.  Is there a setting to
stop this behavior?  Not finding anything related to this in Setup Config.

Thanks,
Susan

Susan Dorsey
Information Technology Services
University of Colorado at Boulder

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From: Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:46:32 -0800 (PST)

> stop this behavior?  Not finding anything related to this in Setup Config.

Hello,

Thanks for pointing this out.  It is a bug, and will be fixed in 4.54.

Jeff