On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:15:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In the Mutt manual: > > foreground can optionally be prefixed with the keyword bright to make > the foreground color boldfaced (e.g., brightred). > > That's the way to do with xterm, where boldfaced mode is a way to get > bright colors, but in GNOME Terminal, this does bold + bright colors. > IMHO, one should just get bright colors in GNOME Terminal (without > bold), or at least this should be configurable.
In xterm, there are resources that affect how bold and italics are rendered on your terminal window. The problem, AFAIK, is that the gnome developers in their infinite wisdom decided to make gnome-terminal use xterm-256color by default, give you no way to change that (other than manually setting TERM somehow), and don't give you any control over compatibility features (like the X resources). Or at least, if they do, the means of it is as obtuse as my nephew. [Actually TBH, gnome-terminal is much worse.] I think the ideal is that 256-color terminals should emulate xterm's colors 0-15 (or rather 0-8 with and without bold), and then do whatever they want with the other 240 colors; i.e. gnome-terminal should do that by default. And at least in theory, if you can figure out how to edit your terminal windows color palate, you can do that yourself. BUT... for proper 256-color terminals, setting bright probably should just enable bold (so that you can--I use that feature), and you should tell Mutt explicity what color you want to use, i.e. color0-color255. But good luck figuring out what colors those are. In other words, I think the current behavior is probably the best possible, although it means you may have to spend a quantity of time that's longer than your grandfather's stories monkeying with your terminal to get things they way you want them. [Disclaimer: I use gnome terminal, mostly because a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, it was the best way to get multi-charset terminal support, and when it was working more reasonably in xterm, I was too lazy to reconfigure everything. Again. Oh also I filed a bug against xterm in a now-long-outdated Fedora release and Red Hat closed it, saying xterm was unsupported. Yeah, that really happened.] -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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