- The <EM>use</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>default</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>colors()</EM> function was added to support
- <EM>ded</EM>. This is a full-screen application which uses curses
- to manage only part of the screen. The bottom portion of
- the screen, which is of adjustable size, is left uncolored
- to display the results from shell commands. The top por-
- tion of the screen colors filenames using a scheme like
- the "color ls" programs. Attempting to manage the back-
- ground color of the screen for this application would give
- unsatisfactory results for a variety of reasons. This
- extension was devised after noting that color xterm (and
- similar programs) provides a background color which does
- not necessarily correspond to any of the ANSI colors.
- While a special terminfo entry could be constructed using
- nine colors, there was no mechanism provided within curses
- to account for the related <EM>orig</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>pair</EM> and <EM>back</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>color</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>erase</EM>
+ The <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> function was added to support <EM>ded</EM>.
+ This is a full-screen application which uses curses to
+ manage only part of the screen. The bottom portion of the
+ screen, which is of adjustable size, is left uncolored to
+ display the results from shell commands. The top portion
+ of the screen colors filenames using a scheme like the
+ "color ls" programs. Attempting to manage the background
+ color of the screen for this application would give unsat-
+ isfactory results for a variety of reasons. This exten-
+ sion was devised after noting that color xterm (and simi-
+ lar programs) provides a background color which does not
+ necessarily correspond to any of the ANSI colors. While a
+ special terminfo entry could be constructed using nine
+ colors, there was no mechanism provided within curses to
+ account for the related <STRONG>orig_pair</STRONG> and <STRONG>back_color_erase</STRONG>