Re: Feature request: italic style in region_highlight

[Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did this discussion and the one in workers/47491 ever result in
anything? Is it still on the table?

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:28 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Bart Schaefer wrote on Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 18:30:17 -0800:
> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:06 PM Roman Perepelitsa
> > <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > %O/%o (for "oblique") would be available. I realise that an oblique font
> > > > is not strictly the same as italic.
> > >
> > > Perfect timing. I wanted to ask which alternative letter to use as %a
> > > is taken by something (watch, perhaps?). %O/%o sounds good.
> >
> > Agree.  (However, the only use of %a I could find is in the zstyle
> > formats for VCS, which didn't seem to conflict.
>
> In vcs_info one can always double the percent sign if needed.  Well, %a for one
> is used in both patch-format and actionformats, so it's possible it'd have to be
> doubled twice if someone wanted to use %a in its prompt meaning in patch-format.
>
> > > With %A{...} we would have to
> > > explain how it interacts with the other sequences. E.g., does %u
> > > cancel %A{4}?
> >
> > I think if we created %A{4} (which BTW I would recommend requiring at
> > least two digits, e.g. %A{04}) then we would have to document the
> > existing escapes as being shorthands for the corresponding %A forms,
> > so yes, %u would cancel %A{04}.
>
> Why would we create either %A{4} or %A{04}?  The API to script writers should
> use symbolic names; the API between us and the terminal should use terminfo
> rather than hardcoded escape sequences.  If anything, something like «%X{foo}»
> that does the equivalent of «%{`tput foo`%}» might be worthwhile?  We could
> still add an %Y/%y pair of escapes for italics but they'd be syntactic sugar
> for %X{sitm} and %X{ritm} respectively.
>
> (X, Y, and y are metasyntactic variables for the actual letters we'd use.)