Package: elvis Version: 2.2.0-9 Severity: important elvisnox paints normal text as black by default. In a black background xterm, this means the text is invisible, except for the character which is painted by the (white) block cursor.
This behavior makes it impossible to use elvisnox under normal, expected conditions (being the default editor in /etc/alternatives, and $EDITOR being unset) such as running visudo. As user root, elvisnox paints the normal text as black on black for user root (e.g. when running visudo). However, using elvisnox as a normal user, the normal text is painted yellow on black (as would be expected from elvis.clr configuration. For me, the expected behavior would be to use the same color scheme as the mother process (i.e. xterm or rxvt) by default. A work-around that worked for me is to edit /etc/elvis/elvis.clr and, under the "case termcap" definitions, change the "color normal" line to e.g. color normal grey90 or grey90 on black (since I'm using the grey90-on-black color scheme on xterm). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.3-slh-up-4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages elvis depends on: ii elvis-common 2.2.0-9 common files for elvis, elvis-cons ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library elvis recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
