On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 01:46:00PM -0400, Ken Weingold wrote:
> What is the difference between the colors' 'bright' attribute and
> mono's 'bold'?  The Mutt manual says that 'bright' makes the color
> boldfaced, but it is definitely different than mono's bold, where bold
> makes the characters a but thicker, where 'bright' simply seems to
> make them brighter.

'bold' may be characters drawn with thicker lines and/or brighter lines
(or neither).  it depends on the terminal type and its configuration.

mutt's only asking the terminal for 'bold' (there's no termcap/terminfo
attribute for 'bright')

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