-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > Hello, sometime ago (in 2006) someone asked if is possible to print > italic text when using screen inside urxvt, but it received no > replies... > > Someone know if it is possible? I tried some things with termcap (but > to be sincere I don't fully understand the concept of > termcaps/terminfo) like adding the following line to screenrc: > > termcapinfo rxvt* so=:se= ZH=\E[3m:ZR=\E[m > > My idea is that i needed to remove the definition of standout and put > the italic in the place of \E[3m. But that don't works (well i think > that is not supposed to work, but as I sad i dont fully understand > what the termcap is all about)... In urxvt, outside of screen, the > string '\33[3mHello\33[m' prints hello in italic. > > In the screen manual 'Standout' have a '(ANSI: Italicized)' what is > that is supposed to mean?
It means that what Screen uses for standout mode, ANSI (and rxvt) uses for italics mode. I don't know why this is the case, but the fact that it is means that making screen support italics would be a PITA. If we make screen use \033[3m for italics (instead of its current use for standout), and \033[7m for standout (ANSI's "negative image"), then all pre-existing termcap/terminfo definitions for screen will be wrong, and users will have to be especially careful not to use newer versions of screen with older termcap/terminfo definitions for screen. Nevertheless, it seems like it might not be a terrible idea to start migration, or at least support a configuration option for it. I don't know when such a change might be effected, though. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI2AmQ7M8hyUobTrERAtIiAKCFfoYYtSKss4YFaImxxDV0bQqDdgCfZ95g K/sIU1J3e8XZgcRuA3GdLd8= =snpb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
