On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:07:42AM -0500, S. Gilles wrote: > A number of terminal emulators (xterm with TERM=xterm-256color and st, > off the top of my head), interpret the A_BLINK attribute by actually > blinking, not setting the background color to the bright version. A > quick way to test this is > > :color indicator black brightblack > > which on some terms (urxvt) will cause black-on-gray text, and on > others (xterm) will cause an unreadable blinking line.
...while both terminals support blinking... > This patch changes that behavior by avoiding A_BLINK and directly > using the bright versions of colors if they are available. I've tested > it on urxvt, xterm (with TERM=xterm-256color), and st, and it behaves > as I expect. On xterm (with TERM=xterm), blinking still persists, but > it always did that anyway, so at least this patch doesn't seem to > break that case. ...a still better improvement would be to remove the A_BLINK code altogether. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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