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Handling transparent BG color when used as FG

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#1,898 opened on Jan 16, 2019

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Description

Nano displays its shortcuts with FG/BG colors reversed: image

However, when theme BG is transparent, following happens: image

The solution could be to have a separate flag that will render characters with no background as if background were transparent instead of theme.backgroundColor, but will still use the actual color for inverted elements.

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Look into the rendering code that handles background and foreground colors, particularly how transparency is managed for the background color. Identify where the inverted colors logic is applied and how it interacts with transparency.
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