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

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

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:49:21AM +0900, MINAMI Hirokazu wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 01:16 -0500, Ian Ward wrote:
> 
> > 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've prepared a patch for the xterm-like scheme (attached).
> i.e. make cursor's fg/bg color be taken from the character under cursor.

Thanks! I will try it soon.

> > 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
> 
> Sorry, I couldn't find the better one.
> 
> Just curious: what function are you going to add? 
> I'm assuming that the knowledge of encoding should not
> be neccesary to simply display some strings.

I need to know the encoding for things like word wrapping and cursor
movement in edit boxes (sometimes the cursor should move 2 spaces).  I
will also have to know how the terminal will behave when I send it
combining characters and BiDi text.  I don't support BiDi yet -- That
will be an interesting challenge.

Ian