Re: [PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI

Joel Brobecker
2019-03-07T06:02:38Z

> > Eli> . The default foreground color used for addresses, blue, is too dark
> > Eli> when the terminal's background is black. Maybe we should change to
> > Eli> magenta, which should look OK on both dark and light backgrounds.
> >
> > For me magenta is even darker. Setting the intensity to bold might be
> > more acceptable?
>
> Still too dark. I guess we will need to leave this to personal
> customizations.

My idea was to mimick what vim does: It actually has two sets of
settings, one for dark terminals, and one for bright ones. Each set
uses similar colors by default, but adapted for the brightness
of the terminal.

For more info, check out vim's help for "set background=[dark|light]".

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Joel