Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Invisible cursor with python curses module and start_color

[Ian W. <ia...@ex...>]

On Sun, 2005-02-01 at 13:44 +0900, MINAMI Hirokazu wrote:
> I've tried your script on the default setting
> and on "mlterm -f white -b black".
> 
> When default color (black on white) is used, the cursor couldn't
> be seen because it's rendered by black on black background. 
> In the latter case (white on black), I could see white rectangle.
> These result seems to be identical to xterm/rxvt.
> 
> Are you requesting to draw cursor differently to be always visible?
> I'm afraid it may rather annoying in some cases.

xterm always flips the foreground and background colors of the character
the cursor is on (white on blue becomes blue on white etc.)  rxvt uses
black on white if the background of the character the cursor is on is
black, otherwise it uses white on black.

I don't want to tell people "Never use a black background because mlterm
users won't be able to see the cursor".  I'm sorry if this is annoying.

Ian

BTW, I'm hoping to add support for all mlterm's supported encodings to
Urwid (http://excess.org/urwid/).  Can you recommend any good texts that
I may use as a reference?  At the moment I am using:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-codes.en.html