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by dragonwriter
2087 days ago
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> He's following the spec, and users are asking him to violate it to be compatible with programs which also violate it. Users are asking for a configuration option to behave the way every other terminal works, and the way everyone writing software that runs in terminals that relies on any behavior relies on terminals behaving. |
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For starters: Softwares that use terminfo, and anything built on top of it such as ncurses, only use this for one specific terminal type, linux-16color. No other terminal type in terminfo changes colour this way.
The idea that boldface and blink change colours has been on its way out since the 1990s. XTerm has had the ability since 1997; and while its XTerm personality does not, its UXTerm personality defaults to boldface meaning boldface. Of course AIXterm, at the start of the 1990s, had SGRs 90 to 97 and 100 to 107, and did 16 colours that way, not with boldface. The Windows Terminal issue shows some of how far this notion has extended in the more than a quarter of a century since.
It isn't a VGA world any more, and people aren't assuming VGA semantics any more. Ironically, before VGA, in the world of MDA et al., as seen from the SCO Console, people didn't assume these semantics back then, either. There has been a sea change. boldface means boldface. And blink actually means blink (or nothing, depending from what one's views on blinking as a GUI mechanism are).
* https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5682
* https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/7388