Re: [dev] [PATCH] Don't make bold text bright with default color

From: Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:49:20 +0200

Greetings.

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:49:20 +0200 Yuri Karaban <suckless_AT_dev97.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "REVC" == Roberto E Vargas Caballero <k0ga_AT_shike2.com> writes:
>
> >> if default color is used (with light background and black
> >> foreground it's looking rather ugly, brightened black font
> >> becomes gray and unreadable on light gray background).
>
> REVC>> If you don't like you can always change the background.
>
> Quite the opposite, I like my background color and I don't want to
> change it.
>
> Bold colors are brightened to stand out even more. But with the light
> background and dark foreground brightening acts contrary making the
> letters less emphasized.
>
> >> Please consider adopting standard behavior, otherwise it's making
> >> the bold text hard to read on a gray background ;-)
>
> REVC>> standard? could you explain what standard are you talking?,
> REVC>> because I think no iso, or ansi, or whenever you want made a
> REVC>> standard about it.
>
> Don't jeer, believe you understood that I mean de-facto standards
> (xterm, rxvt, gnome terminals based on libvte, etc.). Every terminal
> which I tried behaves consistently (doesn't brighten implicit default
> foreground with bold face). You may try yourself escape sequences which
> I provided.
>
> I'm sorry for disturbing you, I thought my observation would be
> useful. I was wrong.

You give up too easily.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann
Received on Tue Apr 15 2014 - 17:49:20 CEST