Is there a reverse video mode for text in fields?

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 5:46 PM -0800 3/14/03, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
>The man page for "textstyle" lists a couple of possibilities, but not
>inverse video. The keywords "inverse" and "reverse" don't seem to
>apply to text.


They don't. However, you can set the backgroundColor as well as the
foregroundColor for text chunks, so you can do something like this for a
reverse video effect:

  set the backgroundColor of word 3 of field "Stuff" to black
  set the textColor of word 3 of field "Stuff" to white

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