Re: [vile] Odd problem with setting colour resource

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> In my .vilerc file I have the line:-
>
>    set bcolor=default
>
> This works fine nearly every time I start vile but for one case.  When
> I start vile from inside Firefox (using the mozex extension) I get an
> error:-
>
>    [No match for 'default']
>
> from vile.
>
> It makes no difference what I change 'default' to vile refuses to find
> it.  What sort of environment change can cause vile to do this?  I
> assume it must be something in its environment that causes this
> problem.

probably Firefox's resetting $TERM to something like "vt100" which
doesn't have colors.  In that case, the available colors are only
"black" and "white".  If that's the case, you can test the $ncolors
variable to see if it's 2, and put an if-endif around the code in your
.vilerc file


> As a workaround is there some way I can set bcolor to a numeric value?
>
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> Chris Green (address@hidden)
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