Date:         Sun, 11 May 1997 20:22:15 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: AF Color Change

In article <9704098632.AA863218986@westatpo.westat.com>, Ian Whitlock
<whitloi1@WESTATPO.WESTAT.COM> writes
>    I have inherited an old PC 6.08 AF system transported to 6.11.  The
>    editing parms were set so that the background is black and the
>    foreground yellow.  (SORT OF LIKE SHOUTING IN CAPS!!!)
>
>    I would much prefer to work with the windows standard of white
>    background and black foreground.  I can change the parameters in
>    EDPARMS so that new text follows the new scheme, but I haven't found
>    any whay to change the existing text.  Even a copy/paste to a new
>    screen preserves the old foreground color.
>
>    How can one change the color of existing text or copied text?
>
>    If not, then how can change change the marking color of marked text.
>    With a black background and black marking I lose all sense of text that
>    I have marked.
>
>    Thanks in advance.
>    Ian Whitlock <whitloi1@westat.com>
Ian
Having struggled with that scenario, I have been stripping attributes
and changing colours with this
      file 'x.x' ; color back w; color text k; include 'x.x' r
Then, having had some trouble with the next color command, I next mark
an area of text, and issue command
                                       color mark gray reverse
Some time soon I'm going to put those into a command macro to run
through *all* the SCL and PROGRAM entries in a catalog.
Good luck
--
Peter Crawford                  Peter@crawfordsoftware.demon.co.uk