On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 21:04:37 +0000, nia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 09:01:51PM +0000, nia wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:55:24PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 20:17:10 +0000, Nia Alarie wrote: > > > > > > > Module Name: src > > > > Committed By: nia > > > > Date: Mon Jul 26 20:17:10 UTC 2021 > > > > > > > > Modified Files: > > > > src/lib/libcurses: curses_standout.3 > > > > > > > > Log Message: > > > > The BUGS sections is incorrect again for "modern" terminals. > > > > > > > > For example, wscons and xterm both display standout differently to bold. > > > > > > Please, revert. The bugs section need to be changed to caveats (it's > > > not a bug, if it's by design) and fixed, not removed, as the sitution > > > it warns about is still very much pertinent. The fact that xterm > > > chose to use A_REVERSE video instead of A_BOLD is just an irrelevant > > > detail. > > > > > > -uwe > > > > Suggested wording? I was thinking: > > > > "Some modern terminals may display characters with the standout > > attribute set identically to those with the bold or reverse attribute > > set." > > ... A note that some legacy terminals may _only_ support standout > is probably pertinent too, given the discussion that spawned this.
I'm not sure what is the discussion you are referring to, but it's not a matter of a simple rewording. "It's complicated", as it ties into a few other things, so ideally it needs a coordinated change to several man pages. Even the official "X/Open Curses, Issue 7" docs are not very good at explaining this and cross-referencing things properly, so you need to do a bit of legwork to find out. The two key points from the spec that the BUGS section tries to warn you about is (emphasis mine): A_STANDOUT - Best highlighting mode of the terminal The standend() and wstandend() functions turn off ALL attributes of the current or specified window. Roughly speaking "standout" is a kind of higher-level alais and it works differently than other attributes (standend). Mixing it with explicit use of other lower-level attributes is not a good idea. -uwe
