On Apr 5, 9:21 am, Brett Stahlman <brettstahl...@comcast.net> wrote: > I see that rxvt-unicode supports italic nicely. In fact, the Txtfmt > test page looks about as nice in a urxvt terminal as it does in the > GUI! I can't find any evidence thatxtermis intended to support > italic. Bold, underline, inverse, blink, and even hidden, but not > italic. Thextermman page describes an option that suggests it might > be possible to have underline displayed as italic, but I'm not sure > that would help even if it worked, since it would force you to choose > between underline and italic. Gnome-terminal supportsxtermcontrol
gnome-terminal supports a subset of xterm's controls. xterm's controls include vt220 controls. > sequences in addition to some VT220 extensions. VT220 doesn't appear > to have added an italic attribute. So it appears to me that rxvt- > unicode is the best of the 3 cterms I have on my system (at least from > a Txtfmt perspective). Does anyone know of other color terminals that > support italic? They'll be rare. The escape sequence you're referring to was standardized in the early 1990s as a printer-specific control. Neither curses nor slang support printer-controls like that. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
