Re: SLang, color, and bold (was Re: lynx-dev Lynx-2.8.1 is great)

[dickey]

> If I understand what you're saying, I don't think that's 
> what I'm seeing.  I build with SLang, and use the TeraTerm 
> emulator, set to VT100. 

that's one emulator (I've looked at a dozen or so - haven't made a list - yet)
  
> So it seems to me that combining blink with color *does* do 
> something different than either alone.  Maybe the 
> command-line flags have nothing to do with what you're 
> discussing, or maybe I'm using a busted implementation of 
> ... something?  Or maybe, for this purpose, emulator != 
> terminal.  Beats me. 

We can argue over this all day - but for every terminal emulator that you
can find that implements blink as a variant of bold (or uses bold to map in
a different color), I think that I can (with some work ;-) find one that
doesn't.  Terminfo has a flag to tell the curses application which
combinations _don't_ work; it's there for a reason (and while testing
various emulators, I find some of the combinations, and update the terminfo
as needed).

> Michael Warner  

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