Request for testing: xterm 191

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Fri Jun 25 13:23:21 UTC 2004



On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Satish Balay wrote:

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> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Satish Balay wrote:
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>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> 
>>> If you are an xterm user using Fedora Core 1 or 2, please upgrade
>>> to this xterm release and test it as much as possible.
>> 
>> Trying it on FC1 - The first thing I noticed is - the 'blue' color
>> used by 'ls --color=auto' for 'dir' listings is different (a bit
>> lighter shade. Not sure if this is a bug - but don't mind this new
>> color.
>> 
>> I still have the old xterms running - so I could compare..
>
> Same color shifts in emacs/pine.
>
> And in 'emacs -nw' the status bar (or whatever) shows the filename in
> 'reverse colors' - with blue background with old xterm. With new xterm

> - the filename is just bold. I guss I like the new one better.
And is consistant with grapical emacs.

The same affect is noticed with tcsh and prompt 'set prompt="%B%m:%/>"'. 
Earlier, bold was somehow displayed as blue - now it is displayed correctly 
as bold.

Satish





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