On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to get "set_color --dim" to work on macOS?
>> It was quite a battle to get --italic to work, but I'm past that.
>> I just want to verify that it is possible to get --dim working before I
>> expend any more effort.
>>
>
> Your terminal and its terminfo definition have to support it. If you run
>
> infocmp -1L | grep enter_dim_mode
>
> and get no output then your terminfo doesn't support it and therefore fish
> can't either. Note that xterm doesn't support dim mode so the usual xterm
> terminfo definitions don't either. Both Terminal.app and iTerm2 support dim
> mode but if you're using a xterm terminfo definition (e.g.,
> "xterm-256color") then fish doesn't know the terminal supports it. You'll
> need to create a custom terminfo definition that includes
> "enter_dim_mode=\E[2m".
>
Correction, the terminfo entry should be "dim=\E[2m,". The string
"enter_dim_mode" is what a program like fish uses to retrieve the dim
capability string.
--
Kurtis Rader
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
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