Re: Something wrong with prompt themes

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 6,  2:19pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: Something wrong with prompt themes
}
} Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
} 
} > Some prompt themes (e.g. elite) explicitly use characters with 8th
} > bit set. This looks really ugly here - tested on dtterm and console
} > (AT386 terminal - dunno if it specific to SINIX or is in common use)
} > with ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-5 charsets.
} 
} Irritating, isn't it? ;-)

Those characters are just stipple-patterns in a VGA console font; the
faded/shaded themes actually look best on the raw console of an x86-PC
unix system such as Linux (i.e. without X11).

It ought to be possible to use actual colors for the fade from one color
to another, but to do so for an arbitrary pair of colors would require
a ridiculously big lookup table to find the correct ANSI codes.  Maybe
there's some algorithmic way involving an AA that keys the ANSI codes
on their RGB values ...

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