Re: A zvt proposition

[Hassan Aurag <aurag crm umontreal ca>]

 I need to say this:

ALL HAIL KING NOTZED THE FIRST.
AND GOD SHAVE THE KING (OH NO SAVE!)

Btw, is it a king or a queen. I am just wondering!

Anyway, this is great news for me(I am too lazy) and I think for at 
least half a million wanna-be developers like myself!

Thanks a lot

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 11/16/99, 1:18:24 AM, zucchi@zedzone.mmc.com.au (NotZed) wrote 
regarding Re: A zvt proposition:


> Well for starters I dont think its a particularly "required" feature,
> although it would be nice I guess.

> There is no need to add any new api for this, the existing
> one has enough space to include the colour information as well
> (as part of the attribute setting).

> Ok, well, to save you the time and avoid the probably destabilising
> effects of somone unfamiliar working with the code, i've just coded it
> up, it was eaiser than i'd thought.

> I'm just about to check this into gnome-libs stable, the api hasn't
> changed, you can just now also pass foreground/background colour with
> the 'highlight_mask' attribute.

> e.g. to set foreground colour 2, and background colour 5, use
>  highlight_mask = (2<<VTATTR_FORECOLOURB)|(5<<VTATTR_BACKCOLOURB);

> bold/underline/inverse can be combined with these also.

> With an older version of zvt, theOBse flags will be explicitly 
ignored
> by zvt_match_add(), so they are safe to use anywhere.

> Enjoy!

>  Michael

> >
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:28:56PM +0000, Hassan Aurag wrote:
> > > This is really out of my head. Feel free to criticize .........
> > >
> > > Would be extremely difficult to add the possibility of another type of
> > > match_add in zvt? Instead of just highlighting, it would colorize!
> > >
> > > Yes I know I could do it myself! However, I don't know how, and that's
> > > why I am asking. Moreover, I think that a lot of zvt based apps would
> > > benefit from this.
> > >
> > > We would then have a color_match_add function that would do this on
> > > regex tags! Simple to use, blahblahblah!
> >
> > As my previous messages indicated, I would be really interested in 
this.
> > I can't dedicate a great deal of time to implementing it, but I would 
be
> > happy to help as much as I can.
> >
> > Perhaps NotZed (or someone else who understands the way the vt code 
works)
> > could suggest a way to implement it.  Those who are interested in 
seeing
> > the functionality could then write the code.
> >
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