Patch idea from Debian, but modified considerably in implementation:
introduce a new colour in Slant (COL_FILLEDSQUARE) which is used for
the background of any grid square that has a diagonal line in it.
This makes it easier to spot the one square on a giant board you
forgot to fill in, but on the other hand I found it to look very
strange and disconcerting. So I've set the colour to be identical to
COL_BACKGROUND by default, and users who like the idea can enable it
by environment variable or by local patch.

[originally from svn r8930]