From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug? Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:21:24 +0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118384384 17926 80.91.229.2 (10 Jun 2005 06:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 10 08:19:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgcrW-0008PN-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:19:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dgcya-0008HI-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:26:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgcxM-00085X-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgcxI-000859-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:25:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgcxG-00084l-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dgctq-00029F-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:21:50 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-242-216.inter.net.il [84.228.242.216]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id EOT13069 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:21:23 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: James Cloos In-reply-to: (message from James Cloos on Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:38:54 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38491 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38491 > Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: James Cloos > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:38:54 -0400 > > What I meant is that is displays what a user of the linux consoles > expects for underlining, which is a different colour. Ie, it supports > the standard vt100 escape sequence, but the output is not physically > an underline. Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you. > One issue then is whether emacs should ignore faux underlining > support. Console users will have certain expectations on what > underlining, bold, el al mean that are obviously different than > what users of terminal emulators may expect. I'd certainly > expect emacs to do what all of the other apps do and ignore that > the console emulates underlining via a colour change. If you describe how those other apps do this, perhaps we could do the same in Emacs. > The other issue is how emacs determines that a given term's > underlining support is via real underlines or some alternative > representation and, if the latter, whether colouring text might > collide with the application of the underline attribute. See term.c: Emacs looks at the bits in the value of the "NC" capability of the terminal.