emacs trunk now supports italics on terminal emulators which support it (was: Re: Italic text with screen inside urxvt and some termcap questions)
Gregor Zattler <[email protected]>
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Hi screen-users, Micah, regarding this old post: * Micah Cowan <micah-4P9bHVUKEzVBDLzU/[email protected]> [22. Sep. 2008]: > Kazuo Teramoto wrote: >> Hello, sometime ago (in 2006) someone asked if is possible to print >> italic text when using screen inside urxvt, but it received no >> replies... >> >> Someone know if it is possible? I tried some things with termcap (but >> to be sincere I don't fully understand the concept of >> termcaps/terminfo) like adding the following line to screenrc: >> >> termcapinfo rxvt* so=:se= ZH=\E[3m:ZR=\E[m >> >> My idea is that i needed to remove the definition of standout and put >> the italic in the place of \E[3m. But that don't works (well i think >> that is not supposed to work, but as I sad i dont fully understand >> what the termcap is all about)... In urxvt, outside of screen, the >> string '\33[3mHello\33[m' prints hello in italic. >> >> In the screen manual 'Standout' have a '(ANSI: Italicized)' what is >> that is supposed to mean? > > It means that what Screen uses for standout mode, ANSI (and rxvt) uses > for italics mode. I don't know why this is the case, but the fact that > it is means that making screen support italics would be a PITA. > > If we make screen use \033[3m for italics (instead of its current use > for standout), and \033[7m for standout (ANSI's "negative image"), then > all pre-existing termcap/terminfo definitions for screen will be wrong, > and users will have to be especially careful not to use newer versions > of screen with older termcap/terminfo definitions for screen. > > Nevertheless, it seems like it might not be a terrible idea to start > migration, or at least support a configuration option for it. I don't > know when such a change might be effected, though. Since Emacs bug #9652 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9652 was closed in trunk last week, I just opened an corresponding wishlist bug for screen, ist screen bug #36676 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36676 Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-