Re: GNU Screen 5.0.0 and Emacs italics bug?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:39:15 +0000
> From: James Ipswich <james.ipswich@proton.me>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> There is a longstanding issue running Emacs within GNU Screen. Me and
> others, including Eli, reported this issue last year:
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=36676
> 
> GNU Screen just released v5.0.0. I have just tested v5.0.0 and the same
> problem seems to persist, which makes modern Emacs (v29.4 in my case)
> hard to use. Namely:
> 
> > Emacs does indeed have italics support after switching to screen
> > master [now v5.0.0]. However, it is broken. What should be italics, is
> > displayed underlined. But some italics show up now e.g. in the menu
> > bar. And outside Emacs, but still inside screen, xterm now displays
> > italics correctly.

I asked questions in the Savannah bug report, but it was left
unanswered.  Does the new Screen implement the sitm and ritm
capabilities?  If it does not, I'm afraid that GNU Screen is still
where it was a year ago.