Hi David, This is no way a TRN related topic. If you have an X window environment on your desktop, you could use any of the plenty of available X-window oriented editors, including GNU freeware. I personally tossed dtterm out and switched to xterm long ago, mostly due to its better mouse support. Anyway, *term is only needed for running old terminal-oriented applications while there are editors that create windows of their own. I would recommend using nedit (http://www.nedit.org/) but this is my own personal preference. It is very easy to learn for a beginner, highly customizable and easily built for a variety of platforms. There are also out-of-the-box binary files ready for installation on Sun, Linux, HP-UX and other targets. Nedit has a lot of useful features that you won't find in either vi or nvi. You can read some articles on nedit at http://www-pat.fnal.gov/nirvana/NEdit_Talk.html and (more recent) http://www.loohuis-consulting.nl/projects/neditfeature-1.html. Others may recommend other editors for X windows. Again, this is irrelevant for "more about trn" IMO. -- Regards, | /^^^\ Yury | (| , , |) | | * | E-mail: yury.burkatovsky at telrad dot co dot il | \_-_/ On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, David Combs wrote: > For the first time ever, for the last week, since > I switched from using the ancient sun "shelltool" > gui-terminal-emulator (is that what it & dtterm & > xterm are called?) to cde ddterm, I am able > to see *COLORS*! > > (About which I know nothing, nor x11 either.) > > Anyway, when I want to do a followup to a > news-post, trn puts me into vi (well, here > on my shell-acct isp, they tell me that what > they call vi is really nvi), and since my > .exrc specifies shownumbers (if that's what > it's called, I forget, too lazy to look), > I get line-numbers, which I have always found > handy. > > Anyway, they show in this horrible pale, very > pale, that is, yellow, totally unreadable > against the bright white background. > > Any clue as how to I can change them to, say, > red, or deep blue, or brown, or anything > visible? > > (And *without* having to read a book or even > a chapter on X resources, I hope -- maybe > just a cookbook recipe, something I can > just lift off the screen and stick into > some dot-file?) > > THANKS! > > David > > > PS: whatever answers come on this, maybe they > should be held aside somewhere for eventual > inclusion into a "more about trn" manual (since > that original one will likely *never* get > updated). :-( ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390
