Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:09:42AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> Like fulfilling the 1970s Unix promise of italics in manual pages, on the
> wide range of terminals that /can/ /do/ /italics/: stymied on Debian and
> only documented by a note at the bottom of a closed and forgotten bug report
> filed roughly a decade and a half ago against a long since superseded
> version. A couple of Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotations come to
> mind.
>
> * https://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html
What "wide range of terminals that /can/ /do/ /italics/" do you mean?
Let's see, printf 'a\e[3mb\e[0mc\n' (b should be italic, a and c should not)
* linux console: - (text does nothing, fb makes it green)
* xfce4-terminal: -
* lxterminal: -
* xterm: ✓
* rxvt-unicode: -
* pterm -
* cool-retro-term: -
And out of Debian:
* osso-xterm: -
* putty: -
* win10 console: -
* Solaris console: -
* OpenBSD console: - (text)
Hmm... 1 out of 11¹ implementing italics plus one doing some other thing
doesn't strike me as a "wide" range.
I didn't bother to test terminals I don't have installed at the moment but
the above sample shouldn't be much off.
[1]. Not counting putty=pterm twice.
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