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

[Christian Hesse]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> on Tue, 2021/06/15 08:23:
> 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 use some applications that decide to use fancy themes with pastel colors
when 256 colors are available. Colors are hard to differentiate then,
especially in bad light conditions.

Just forcing to use 16 colors was the easiest fix there. Did not miss
anything till now.

> > 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.

Too bad... Given that a proper solution with 16 colors does exist I can not
understand the rationale here.

Well, just about to enable VerbosePkgLists then... That prevents the issue
as well.
-- 
main(a){char*c=/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */"B?IJj;MEH"
"CX:;",b;for(a/*    Best regards             my address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*    Chris            cc -ox -xc - && ./x    */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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