[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/1] conf: replace grey46 with bright black

[Allan McRae]

On 15/6/21 7:44 am, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 15/6/21 1:24 am, Christian Hesse wrote:
>> From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
>>
>> This is not handled correctly in some situations. For me (with pacman
>> inside tmux inside xfce4-terminal with TERM=xterm) I do not see version
>> strings but huge gaps between package names. Looks like grey46 is round
>> to just back, which is my background color.
>>
>> Instead use bright black, which is one of the 16 colors and *should* be
>> visible with any configuration. Works for me[tm] and all configurations
>> I tested.
> 
> Is there a reason to use TERM=xterm and not something that supports 256
> colours?
> 
> I remember discussing 16 colour terminals at the time this was
> implemented and deciding they could us NoColor...
> 

BTW - patch rejected.   Try in a terminal with white background.

Allan