reset TERM.DEFN colors?

[slestak]

I am using vt220 emulation in my TERM.DEFN.  My colors are setup and work well.  The only problem I have with this setup (using putty) is if I am in AE, and do a $ to spawn the open record in vim, when I return to Prelude all the colors are washed out.

here is the bad example  http://screencast.com/t/vHbVbYU8zzx2
here is the good example  http://screencast.com/t/2Gwy2ulX

see how the bright white has changed to grey?  The only thing I did was shell out to run vim

Anyone seen anything like this or know of a solution?

[Colin Alfke]

Does a "/R" to refresh the screen help? It will help with things like screen corruption if you update @record while in @common but doesn't if your term gets hammered if you AE something with control chars (like a print job).

SBClient has a reset terminal - does putty have anything similar?

hth
Colin

[slestak]

Grr.  Now it is not doing it.

I seem to remember /R not helping.  And logging to another account with a /LOGTO does not help either.

Putty has a reset Terminal, that seems to make it worse.  Now the colors are washed out and the line drawing cars are q's and k's.

[slestak]

I got it to happen again and tried the SB verb RESET.TERM.DEFN and that didnt help.

[precisonline]

You might try /CHANGE.TERMINAL but I don't have a lot of confidence that it'll help.  It appears that some "dim" characteristic is being set in SBClient.  You might try this from /EP:

PRINT @TERM.DEFN<4,1>

It'll either a) work, b) not work, or c) fail gloriously.   Shouldn't actually hurt anything if b) or c).

[slestak]

I will try that and report back.

[slestak]

You might try /CHANGE.TERMINAL but I don't have a lot of confidence that it'll help.  It appears that some "dim" characteristic is being set in SBClient.  You might try this from /EP:

PRINT @TERM.DEFN<4,1>

It'll either a) work, b) not work, or c) fail gloriously.   Shouldn't actually hurt anything if b) or c).

That did it.  U Da Man!  Again!  End Zone Dance...

Now, if I can pipe that into the $ function of AE.
That is for another day.

[precisonline]

Probably best at this point is just to create a /process (RESET.COLORS?) that you can run after exiting AE.  Simple enough to drop that one line in a /PD.P.

[slestak]

ty, works well.