Re: file coloring

[Russell <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

bulia byak wrote:
>
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> No matter how you count, MOST colors are still available for file coloring.
>
> > Try to persuade Russell, who believes that you can already do this in
> > 4.5.55.
>
> Russel obviously misunderstood my post. Yes, 4.5.55 can change the colors of some things, but NOT of 
> arbitrarily defined file types. The file types hard-coded into mc are not too useful because they only 
> cover a few basic cases.
>
> > Or work on the features that users actually request.
>
> This is what I'm doing - I work on the features I (a user) actually request. When I implement a feature 
> that, in my opinion, might be useful for anyone else, I share it here. And, guess what, I don't expect the 
> maintainers of this program to behave like they are trying to "protect" it from "intrusion".
>
> Also, please remember that I didn't write this patch, I only extended it. It was written by someone else. 
> This means there are at least two persons who need this feature badly enough to spend their time actually 
> coding it (and posting it here). Doesn't that tell you something?

I misread 'extensions'.

I found another way to use arbitrary colours. You can map different
colours in different instances of xterm. So now i can get good colours
in vim *and* midnight commander using any colour from rgb.txt, or a
numerical value. Eg:
  xterm -xrm "*VT100*color4:red" -xrm "*VT100*color15:yellow" -e mc

By assigning a different class name: xterm -class <name>, i think you
can specify different xterm resource files with their own defaults,
colours, and other settings.