Reply to post: Re: flaws in nano

Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars

Adrian 4
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Re: flaws in nano

Colourised text on a light background is also useless. Many common colours in the typical ls -c setup leave you with unreadable filenames.

I always assumed this was because 1334 distro releasers liked dark screens to go with their hoodies, so it's interesting that you find them rubbish on dark, too.

Where do these idiot colour choices come from and why are they default ? GUI applications don't seem to have this problem (ignoring 'cool' websites) but consoles can't seem to get it right.

Is the problem that it's configurable, and therefore MUST be configured - even if it doesn't help ?

OMG I just agreed with bb. Igmc..

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