Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] bright colors without bold

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 27-01-18 om 13:14 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:34:05 +0100 Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > When an index is above the number of colors that the terminal supports, nano
> > should simply bring the index into range: blank the upper bits.
>
> That is a terrible idea. Everything would be clamped to white and would be
> unreadable on a white background.

??  No, only the indexes 0-15 would get reduced to 0-7.  Anything above 15...
I don't know.

> > Bright should never mean bold.  Bright should stop meaning also bold, as it
> > does now.
>
> That would break compatibility with existing syntaxes and require everything
> to be converted to use the bold attribute.
Okay.  So the "bright" prefix has to continue to mean A_BOLD, only the
"bright" attribute should mean just bright.

Benno