sup talk - Jan 2009 - When using "default" in colors.yaml or colormap.rb, sup throws an exception

Hello.  First of all, thanks for this program!

I''m using a transparent terminal and would like to get sup''s
background color set to "default".

So far, I have tried the following:

1. I created a colors.yaml file with the format:
  :label:
    :fg: yellow
    :bg: default
    :attrs: bold
2. When this gave no joy, I wiped colors.yaml and edited colormap.rb
directly, like:
:label => { :fg => "yellow", :bg => "default" }

I am able to set normal colors either way, an exception is only thrown
if I set any color to "default".
I have included the error message below, as well as any other relevant
info I can think of.
If you can give some suggestions on what else to check, or if you need
anything else, please let me know.
Thanks again for sup, and for your consideration.

Christopher Benuzzi

--- ArgumentError from thread: main
couldn''t initialize curses color pair 4, -1 (key 1)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/colormap.rb:130:in
`color_for''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/colormap.rb:206:in
`send''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/colormap.rb:206:in
`method_missing''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/buffer.rb:106:in
`write''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/modes/scroll-mode.rb:51:in
`draw''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/modes/scroll-mode.rb:49:in
`each''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/modes/scroll-mode.rb:49:in
`draw''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/modes/line-cursor-mode.rb:24:in
`draw''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/buffer.rb:97:in
`draw''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/lib/sup/buffer.rb:294:in
`draw_screen''
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.6/bin/sup:153
/usr/local/bin/sup:19:in `load''
/usr/local/bin/sup:19

OS: Debian "Lenny" w/libncurses-ruby installed (Other curses and ruby
libs too, don''t remember all.)
Ruby: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-linux] installed from source
Terminal emulator:  aterm, invoked with "aterm -tr -trsb -sh 42 -fg
white"

Additionally, (to get sup working) in
/home/splicer/ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/curses I did:
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

And here is my gem list:
actionmailer (2.2.2)
actionpack (2.2.2)
activerecord (2.2.2)
activeresource (2.2.2)
activesupport (2.2.2)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
chronic (0.2.3)
daemons (1.0.10)
fastthread (1.0.1)
ferret (0.11.6)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
gettext (1.93.0)
highline (1.5.0)
hoe (1.8.3)
lockfile (1.4.3)
mime-types (1.15)
mongrel (1.1.5)
mysql (2.7)
ncurses (0.9.1)
net-ssh (2.0.8)
rails (2.2.2)
rake (0.8.3)
rmail (1.0.0)
rubyforge (1.0.2)
sup (0.6)
trollop (1.10.2)
validates_timeliness (1.1.5)

Reformatted excerpts from Chris Benuzzi''s message of
2009-01-29:
> I''m using a transparent terminal and would like to get
sup''s
> background color set to "default".
This should be fixed in git next. Check it out.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>