URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67436>
Summary: screen 5.0 converts standout mode to italics
Group: GNU Screen
Submitter: cmadams
Submitted: Fri 15 Aug 2025 07:59:33 PM GMT
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
Planned Release: None
Work Required: None
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Date: Fri 15 Aug 2025 07:59:33 PM GMT By: cmadams <cmadams>
As of
[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=d50e9516e99d4e7416978bb3afbaa3cfe94bc241
this change] in bug #36676, it appears that screen is converting all standout
mode to italics mode. When running less for example, the status line and
search matches are now italics (which is significantly less visible).
This can be seen with:
echo $(tput smso)standout$(tput rmso)
In older screen (and in a regular xterm), that results in reverse video; in
screen 5.0, it results in italics.
I understand the desire for italics, but it should be implemented by
recognizing the italics sequences and adding them to the screen
termcap/terminfo entries (ZH/ZR and stim/rtim), not overriding the standout
sequence to enter/exit italics mode.
For now, I'm working around this by overriding the italics entries in my
.screenrc (but this still means you can't get both standout and italics modes
working):
terminfo xterm* ZH=\E[7m:ZR=\E[27m
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