GNU bug report logs - #9652
emacs should use italic faces on terminal emulators which support italic fonts

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From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: emacs should use italic faces on terminal emulators which support
	italic fonts
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 16:19:02 +0200

Dear emacs developers,

Bug: 

Emacs shows italic faces as underlined in terminal emulators
which support italic fonts ...

Feature request: 

... but should use italic instead.

Recipe to reproduce the bug: 

start a terminal emulator which supports italic fonts (e.g.
rxvt-unicode):

- rxvt-unicode -fn "xft:courier new"

- echo -e '\e[3mitalics\e[m'

--> enjoy italic face

- emacs-snapshot -Q -nw ~/italics.org #org-mode supports italics

- type "/italics/ *bold* _underlined_"

--> "italics" and "underlined" are underlined instead of italics
    resp. underlined.
     
Thanks for considering this feature request and emacs in general, Gregor

Message #8 received at 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9652: emacs should use italic faces on terminal emulators
	which support italic fonts
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:50:00 -0400

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3530

implies it will work if you set up the terminfo/termcap somehow (I don't
know how).

Message #11 received at 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9652: emacs should use italic faces on terminal emulators
	which support italic fonts
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:10:23 -0400

But probably also tty_supports_face_attributes_p should learn that some
ttys can do "real" italics.

Message #14 received at 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9652: emacs should use italic faces on terminal emulators
	which support italic fonts
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:07:55 +0200

Hi Glenn,
* Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> [02. Oct. 2011]:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3530
> 
> implies it will work if you set up the terminfo/termcap somehow (I don't
> know how).

Thanks for mentioning this workaround, but I all ready googled
for information about that and after several failed attempts
decided that all the terminfo/-cap thing is black magic...

That's why I wished this as a feature which works out of the box.


Ciao, Gregor
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Message #19 received at 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 9652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9652: emacs should use italic faces on terminal emulators
	which support italic fonts
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:45:22 +0800

Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net> writes:

> Emacs shows italic faces as underlined in terminal emulators
> which support italic fonts ...
>
> Feature request: 
>
> ... but should use italic instead.

Fixed in trunk.  Thanks for the suggestion.

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