Re: [vile] Wrong background colour in vile

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On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:45:43AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 18  2006, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >>I'm being silly!  The problem isn't on this system (which is also new
> >>to me) but on the BSD system where I had trouble getting vile to
> >>build.
> >>
> >>On that system there isn't an 'infocmp' command.  There is terminfo
> >>but I can't see any tool to extract terminal settings from the
> >>terminfo data.
> >
> >ok.  There's no infocmp (someday perhaps - I'd like to, but there keep 
> >coming up bigger bugs).  It's still ncurses underneath, but dressed up as 
> >termcap - with the termcap data stored in a hashed database file.
> 
> To explain better - FreeBSD doesn't use the terminal descriptions that I 
> maintain as part of ncurses.  Instead, they use a termcap file that was 
> generated from an old copy of ncurses (and contained a lot of technical 
> defects), and has been manually updated ad hoc for various descriptions. 
> I'm reasonably familiar with the differences for xterm's entries, but the 
> others - have to go back and read the actual data.
> 
> The termcap data is stored in a db 1.85 hashed database.  The record 
> format is undocumented (there's only a C source-file that is the 
> reference).  db's format itself is nonportable (you cannot copy a database 
> to another platform and reuse it there).  Newer versions of db have 
> problems with the licensing.
> 
> It-would-be-nice to modify ncurses to be able to read/write comparable 
> db-files, for various technical reasons.
> 
> I'm aware that OpenBSD also uses a similar scheme - with all of the 
> drawbacks listed above.
> 
Thanks for this and all the other explanations.

It's a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE system.

Your suggestion of "set bcolor=default" sorts things out for me, I'll
just have to add that to the .vilerc and all will be well I think.

Thanks again!

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Chris Green (address@hidden)