On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:06:09PM +0200, pancake wrote:
> Oh.. i was about to push the patch...until I realized the original thread.
> 
> Check those pictures:
> 
> I executed the scripts in hg.youterm.com/toys/ansi to check for 256
> colors and
> normal ansi escape codes. And here's the result:
> 
>    http://lolcathost.org/stcolors.png
> (left one is xterm, and right one is st)

Not found.

> 
> As you may see.. not all ansi scape codes are supported, and I would prefer
> to have a patch implementing support for those missing escape codes.
> 
> 
> Then I run irssi:
>   http://lolcathost.org/stcolors2.png

Not found either.

> 
> You may see some other differences... and the missuse of bright when bold
> sometimes hurts my eyes... but some programs just are hard to read without
> it...
> 
> Another annoying thing I found in st is that text selection does not
> reflects it
> correctly until you release the mouse button, this is a bit annoying
> because you
> dont see what's going to be copied into the clipboard until it's too late.
> 
> So, before adding this patch I would prefer some more discussion to make st
> more usable. and less eye-harmful.
> 
> 
> On 04/01/11 10:58, Stefan Mark wrote:
> >Some time ago, i submitted a patch that makes colors bright for bold
> >text. Most Terminals do that, and some programs rely on this (like
> >htop). The patch was rejected unless more people ask for it.
> >
> >As it seems, i'm still the only one, but i modified the patch to make
> >the bold-is-bright behavior optional. Now i try again.
> >
> >I attached two variants of the patch, one uses preprocessor directives
> >(pp.diff), the other not. Maybe i'm more lucky this time :)
> >
> >greetings
> >stefan
> 
> 

Speaking of colors -- another slightly annoying thing is you currently can't
define custom (not choosing one of the 16 colors) background, foreground and
cursor colors.

-- 
Petr 'contyk' Sabata, Red Hat

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