On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:09:42AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Like fulfilling the 1970s Unix promise of italics in manual pages, on the > wide range of terminals that /can/ /do/ /italics/: stymied on Debian and > only documented by a note at the bottom of a closed and forgotten bug report > filed roughly a decade and a half ago against a long since superseded > version. A couple of Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotations come to > mind. > > * https://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html
What "wide range of terminals that /can/ /do/ /italics/" do you mean? Let's see, printf 'a\e[3mb\e[0mc\n' (b should be italic, a and c should not) * linux console: - (text does nothing, fb makes it green) * xfce4-terminal: - * lxterminal: - * xterm: ✓ * rxvt-unicode: - * pterm - * cool-retro-term: - And out of Debian: * osso-xterm: - * putty: - * win10 console: - * Solaris console: - * OpenBSD console: - (text) Hmm... 1 out of 11¹ implementing italics plus one doing some other thing doesn't strike me as a "wide" range. I didn't bother to test terminals I don't have installed at the moment but the above sample shouldn't be much off. [1]. Not counting putty=pterm twice. -- Second "wet cat laying down on a powered on box-less SoC on the desk" close shave in a week. Protect your ARMs, folks!
