On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 10:06:01AM -0800, Jared Finder wrote: > On 2026-01-30 14:24, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 05:46:57PM +0000, Robin Haberkorn via Bug > > reports for ncurses, the GNU implementation of curses wrote: > > > btw. Some terminals nowadays have squiggles and strike-through > > > as well. I always wondered why this didn't make it right through > > > to ncurses. > > > > a few do, but look at the allocated bits (adding stuff would be an ABI > > change) > > If controlling the underline style and color was widely desired, couldn't > the extra parameter to color_set be used? That would also require the curses > library to maintain extra state of the current underline style and color for > attron to look at and emit the correct escape sequence.
It's a little late for that (several years, in fact). See the manpage section on extensions, which makes that a pointer to 'int', for getting extended color pairs (past 32767). (changing that would be an ABI change...) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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