Re: possible PATCH to colors function

[Jim <linux.tech.guy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 6:18 AM Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:27 PM Jim <linux.tech.guy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I get the same results with your code.  But the patch has to do with ${color[bold]}.
> Without faint the result of bold is the same for <color> and <bright-color>.  With
> faint the result is different intensity.

I haven't been following this discussion very closely. It's not
unlikely that my comment will miss the mark.

 

Don't think you missed the mark.  I believe it is all in the way you look

at it.  I see  your point.  The patch adds another intensity that bold doesn't

do.  Even though gnome, xfce, xterm ... all seem to do somewhat the

same thing with bold, I was looking for a way to get another option with

bold when producing output.  Personally ... I believe if using a different

intensity color you should  get a different intensity bold output. It appears

I'm somewhat alone in this thinking.

Most graphical terminal emulators have an option that controls the

CLIP 

FWIW, I always uncheck "Show bold text in bright colors" or its
equivalent in all terminals that I use. I want "bold" to mean the same
thing in the terminal as everywhere else: use the bold font, keep the
same color. In addition, I find it counterintuitive when bold text
changes its color ONLY if the original color was in 0-7.

Roman.

Need to think about this.  Bold doesn't seem to care if the colors were 0-7

or 8-15. Bold always outputs 8-15. What my patch was trying to do was to

correct this. As I originally said, this is a patch for the group's consideration.

I'll respect whatever the group believes is correct.

FWIW I also attached some screenshots from xfce with bold turned on and off.

Regards,

Jim

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