Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] A few glitches.

[Araki K. <ara...@us...>]

 Hi,

From: Andi Cristian Serbanescu <ski...@ya...>
Subject: Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] A few glitches.
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:06:11 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <135...@we...>

> Actually, I think xterm's colorMode: 0 disregards all colour sequences,
> including black and white. Since there's only one colour anyway (+ RV),
> there's no need for them anymore, and they might also mess up some
> things, so that's the way I think it should be done. It may or may not
> disable other things like colour for attributes, cursor colour and so
> on (I don't remember exactly how it works), but that's not important.
> 
> If there's no benefit to disabling colour at compile-time, then of
> course there's no reason to do it. An option to ignore colour escapes,
> however, would help in eliminating the coloured output that some apps
> (mostly non-curses) output gratuitously, regardless of what TERM is.
> 
> Since I started fiddling around with those terminfos, I have (for one)
> found out that plain monochrome (plus the various attributes) is very
> pleasant, yet can still convey sufficient information. Removing the
> distraction of coloured text in this case is, ultimately, a matter of
> personal preference. Others may not like it (or may not care), but I
> still think It's a good thing to have, at least for customisation's sake.

 I added a option to ignore color sequences to hg head.
 Please start mlterm with --colors=false option.
 (Or add use_ansi_colors=false to ~/.mlterm/main.)

 Regards,
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Araki Ken
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