On 05/03/13 12:02, Chris Davies wrote: > Ah. So your X Windows based emulator understands ESC [4m but your console > window (without X Windows) doesn't. It appears that my console > (TERM=linux) represents underline with cyan text.
Yep, likewise. I think it's because it has to be compatible with the standard video card text modes which have probably been around since MDA and CGA, and those only have enough attribute bits to deal with underline in mono mode, or colour in colour mode, but not both together :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/513573e4.1030...@walnut.gen.nz