On 2018-12-17 18:35:21 -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > 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).
In gnome-terminal, all one can do is to choose whether the bold attribute will enable bright colors or not, but the characters will always be rendered as bold. > 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. This is OK at least with gnome-terminal, which has, among its built-in palettes, one corresponding to xterm (but AFAIK, there have been changes in xterm in the past, or perhaps changes specific to Debian, in order to make colors more readable on a black background, and I had also done some improvements via X resources). > 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. No, using colorx with x >= 8 is not very satisfactory as it will not work with 8-color terminals (not sure if one can get rid of 8-color terminals entirely). One should be able to use the same configuration on all terminals with both "normal" and "bright" colors. But now, I have a better idea, whose advantage is to preserve the existing behavior: keep the current "bright" == bold attribute for foreground colors, but introduce "light" as a new prefix: "light" would do a "+ 8" when possible, and use the bold attribute when COLORS < 16 (for foreground colors). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
