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Article #2108Re: noecho bug on rlogin from typescript
From: Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 14:40
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 14:40
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 24-Feb-90 Re: noecho bug on rlogin
fr.. Guy Harris@uunet.uu.net (592)
> >> Wouldn't it be nice, by the way, if tm were modified so that the
> >> "standout" mode, which is reverse video on most terminals and currently
> >> an italic style in tm, were made something more noticable (e.g. even for
> >> SPACE characters in standout mode), like maybe an underline style?
> >
> >Tm uses a template ("tm.<whatever-the-braindead-extension-for-templates-is>")
> >to get its styles from, so just copy the default one into your own template
> >directory and modify it to your pleasure.
> Unfortunately, there's no "inverse video" text style in Andrew yet, as
> far as I know....
Yes, but changing the word "Italic" to "Underline" in my copy of the
appropriate template really did the trick -- it makes a MUCH better, if
not perfect, mode line. Now that underlining works, shouldn't this
really be the default?
Yes, yes, tm is not supported, I know, but how hard is it to change
Italic to Underline?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: noecho bug on rlogin from typescript Message-ID: <QZuHzc60M2YtBT4X5Q@thumper.bellcore.com> Date: 26 Feb 90 14:40:40 GMT References: <2965@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24