From 58a0f8def5742248bf235c7c9cd9d3efcb334751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Haberkorn Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 00:15:52 +0200 Subject: support "default colors" * The terminal's default foreground and background colors are now used by default (`sciteco --no-profile`), so SciTECO integrates naturally into all terminal color schemes, even dark-on-bright ones. * The default Scintilla colors use only 0x000000 (COLOR_BLACK) and 0xC0C0C0 (COLOR_WHITE) now. * You can use `7EJ` to configure the default colors in color schemes or your profile. All existing color schemes had to disable default colors (`-1,-1,7EJ`) since they wouldn't look well otherwise. * You may add `-1,7EJ` to ~/.teco_ini when using a terminal emulator with a washed-out palettized COLOR_BLACK. We cannot detect the terminal's default colors automatically. * Scinterm updated to v6.0. We require a not-yet-upstreamed patch: https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm/pull/40 * In fact, we might decide not to support default colors at all in Scinterm, so this feature should be considered experimental. --- doc/sciteco.7.template | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/sciteco.7.template') diff --git a/doc/sciteco.7.template b/doc/sciteco.7.template index cb718e0..87e8574 100644 --- a/doc/sciteco.7.template +++ b/doc/sciteco.7.template @@ -910,9 +910,17 @@ The \fBSTYLE_CALLTIP\fP (38) style is also accessed by \*(ST to style the \fIpopup area\fP and is initialized to black on white by \*(ST. .LP -On curses user interfaces, only a selection of 16 terminal -colors can be used, although it is possible to request changing -the default color mapping (see \fBEJ\fP command). +On curses user interfaces the Scintilla RGB color values +can refer to the terminal's color palette, initialize new +colors on-demand or refer to the terminal's default foreground +and background colors (see \fBEJ\fP command). +The availability of colors, the size of the terminal's +palette, the availability of arbitrary RGB colors, the +number of concurrent colors on screen and the maximum +number of foreground-background combinations on screen +is subject to terminal-specific limits. +\*(ST supports monochrome terminals by mapping non-black +(non-null Scintilla RGB codes) to reverse video. .LP Scintilla styles will usually be set up in the profile macro or \fBED\fP hook (for syntax highlighting). -- cgit v1.2.3