gabriel rosenkoetter wrote about Re: xterm v. xterm-old:
:On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:48:01AM +1100, Geoff Wing wrote:
:> OK, then if someone has XTerm*Foreground then they also need to
:> include the other colours under the XTerm class, not the VT100 (sub?)class.
:> Well, it worked for me (in 88b, v132 & v150) to also add the following
:> if XTerm*Foreground is set.
:[...]
:You have *got* to be shitting me.
:This should not be necessary just to get reasonable behavior out of
:xterm.

It's not necessary.  As Tom Dickey said, it's just a matter of using
the proper name for the 'foreground' resource (with a small 'f') instead
of the 'Foreground' class.  Otherwise you're setting something different
to what you think.

Regards,
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