On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:52:37 -0500 James McCoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vim expects the terminfo db to advertise how to display italic > characters. As long as the terminal actually supports displaying > italic text, terminfo is reporting the escape sequences properly > (i.e., “:set t_ZH?” and “:set t_ZR?” show what the terminal needs to > enter/leave italic mode), *AND* your font supports italic text, then > things will Just Work. Of course you could argue that this is a problem with the very concept of relying on terminfo. If my shiney new modern xterm on my laptop supports italics that won't help if I ssh into an old machine somewhere else and run the remote vim over there. The terminfo database lives in the wrong place. It was great in the 1980s when a "terminal" was a real piece of glass, phosphor and silicon you bought from a company that published a manual on paper and could be relied upon to be exactly identical anywhere. It doesn't work in 2015 when a "terminal" comes with a configure script and ten different users could pass ten different "--enable-foo" options to compile it. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans [email protected] http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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