Re: Best Terminal Software

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <l542386@pro-newton.cts.com>, Dan Brown writes...
> 
> Big editor is very nice, the color is too (but I wish he'd just use a
> true grey, black, and white for VT100 instead of that dithered grey shit).

    You can form all 16 ANSI colours if you also need a pure grey in
there.  Dithering is the only way to go.  OTOH, since VT-100 doesn't
contain colour information, it would be possible for a future version of
ANSITerm to switch to a non-dithered palette for non-ANSI emulations. 
In any case, you can pick which colour you want as the default for
VT-100.  I use the aqua blue.  Not quite as readable as some other
choices, but it allows for bold/emphasized text (cyan colour).

> I can't comment on the macro language, except that if GEnie access is
> important, GEM and CoPilot work under ProTERM and not under ANSITerm
> (though that might change, for all I know).

    Soon, soon...
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