netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] color: use "light" colors for dark background

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:28:17 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pvorel@...e.cz
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, m.nyman@....fi, yegorslists@...glemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] color: use "light" colors for dark background

From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:13:12 +0100

> COLORFGBG environment variable is used to detect dark background.
> 
> Idea and a bit of code is borrowed from Vim, thanks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz>
> ---
> Colors are nice, but the ones chosen aren't suitable for dark background.
> COLORFGBG environment variable is used in some libraries and software (e.g.
> ncurses, Vim). COLORFGBG is set by various terminal emulators (e.g. konsole,
> rxvt and rxvt-unicode).
> 
> Chosen colors are questionable. Best solution would be also allow user to
> redefine colors, like ls does with LS_COLORS or grep with GREP_COLORS. But that
> is maybe overkill.

I think you may have posted this to the wrong mailing list.