On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:01:29PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 12:21:15PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: [snip] > > but in addition to viewing HTML messages, I (and others who have > > added to this thread) would like a way to reply without losing the > > formatting. > > > > The viewing side isn't so hot either. Most terminal programs > > these days can display colors, italics, bold, underline and > > strikethrough (looks like urxvt doesn't do strikethrough and xterm > > doesn't do underline, > > Xterm most definitely does underline, though you may need to set a > resource to make it do that. I vaguely recall that some text formats > are rendered using colors or reverse text *by default* but can be made > to do the more correct thing via X resources. I just don't recall > the specifics... But underline absolutely works, and I can provide a > link to an image if you're not convinced, but suffice it to say, I > just did it. IIRC italics is the harder thing, as you have to set up > X resources for the italics font face to use, or something like > that... but it all works. > > Hardly anyone uses xterm these days though AFAICT, and configuring it > properly has become a lost art. In fact, quite a few years ago now, I > filed a bug against xterm in some version of Fedora or even Red Hat, > and Red Hat's support people closed the ticket, complaining that xterm > was obsolete and no longer supported. (!!!)
Heh, I learned years ago that my true middle name is either "nobody" or "hardly anyone". I've (recently!) had up to a dozen xterms going at once (on multiple FVWM virtual desktops) shepherding large bundles of updates on a number of servers concurrently, and tend to keep several open in different contexts when developing. Anyway, a good place to read up on xterm might be https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ That version of xterm still gets updates several times a year. xterm is neither obsolete nor unsupported, just unloved by some distro.s. `man xterm` has a long section under RESOURCES which describes all of the many adjustable behaviors. You might begin by looking at 'colorULMode'. Sorry, I have no specific advice -- I got my xterm set up years ago and haven't touched the settings in a long time. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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