On Aug 22, 2006, at 4:46 PM, David Vallner wrote:

> Personally, I'd just avoid hacking arbitrary programs to support  
> colour schemes, and instead do a wrapper shell script that will  
> redefine the ANSI colours in your terminal of choice.

My original understanding was that this could not, in general, be  
done in since the ANSI standard for terminals was, in fact, a  
hardware standard with the meaning of control codes 'built-in'. A bit  
of googling has tends to confirm this impression with some sites  
insisting it can't be done and another outlining an idiosyncratic  
method that works in one terminal emulation program. My Unix Shells  
book does not have anything that hints on being able to configure  
ansi or VT102 or sun or wyse terminals on this level.

But I'm pretty ignorant on the subject. I'd welcome a pointer.
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