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[mattikus]

Is there any easy way to change the color of the local echo? I used to have it set to yellow in mushclient, it helped me visually differentiate it from the surrounding text.

[magiko]

Scandum may reply with a builtin solution (he does that...), but I don't know it :p.

In the mean time, here's a stab at it. This is a replacement function for how you use echo - simply a wrapper:

[mattikus]

I wish it were that simple. The echo i'm referring to is the echo generated after you type in a command on screen.

for example:

I would type look, then "look" would appear on the screen, followed by the the room description. Right now it just has look in the normal colors of the output, without a clear way to differentiate it from the surrounding text.

[magiko]

"That's funny... mine's white..."

Took me a bit to figure out that #split changes the typed commands in the onscreen buffer. #split's useful even if it doesn't fix your color issue.

The only color I changed in my terminal (from what I recollect) is bg to a middle grey (probably so I could see both white and black) - your mileage will vary there, I'm sure.

[mattikus]

Yep, I am indeed using #split, and my text is white as well. I would prefer it to be yellow. I think it's probably hard coded into the code and If I knew where to look I could change it. I did a cursory search earlier but I haven't found a likely spot for it yet.

[mattikus]

Looks like this has been asked before: http://tintin.sourceforge.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=410

I think i've found the relevant portion of the code, I'm attempting to hack my functionality in now.

[mattikus]

Found it.

In input.c, I changed:

[magiko]

Bah. You beat me to it by a few minutes. A few lines later you can change the color for non split, as well.

(White on black background tho? Killer on the eyes. I do black text on the gray).

[Scandum]

Looks like I promised a config option for the command color a long time ago.

I went ahead and changed #config {echo command} to #config {command echo} and added a #config {command color} option that allows setting a 3 digit color code.