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[PATCH v2 6/7] color: support "italic" attribute

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 23, 2016, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID
<20160623173907.GF15774@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20160623173048.GA19923@sigill.intra.peff.net>

We already support bold, underline, and similar attributes. Let's add italic to the mix. According to the Wikipedia page on ANSI colors, this attribute is "not widely supported", but it does seem to work on my xterm.

We don't have to bump the maximum color size because we were already over-allocating it (but we do adjust the comment appropriately).

Requested-by: Simon Courtois <scourtois@cubyx.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++----
 color.c                  | 1 +
 color.h                  | 3 ++-
 t/t4026-color.sh         | 5 +++--
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 4b13c90..c7818ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -163,10 +163,11 @@ Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI
 your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB values as
 hex, like `#ff0ab3`.
 +
-The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, and `reverse`.
-The position of any attributes with respect to the colors (before, after,
-or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may be turned off
-by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`, `no-ul`, etc).
+The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`, and
+`italic`.  The position of any attributes with respect to the colors
+(before, after, or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may
+be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`,
+`no-ul`, etc).
 +
 For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset
 at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting
diff --git a/color.c b/color.c
index a02a935..dcfaea8 100644
--- a/color.c
+++ b/color.c
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ static int parse_attr(const char *name, size_t len)
 #define ATTR(x, val, neg) { (x), strlen(x), (val), (neg) }
 		ATTR("bold",      1, 22),
 		ATTR("dim",       2, 22),
+		ATTR("italic",    3, 23),
 		ATTR("ul",        4, 24),
 		ATTR("blink",     5, 25),
 		ATTR("reverse",   7, 27)
diff --git a/color.h b/color.h
index e24fa0b..3af01a6 100644
--- a/color.h
+++ b/color.h
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ struct strbuf;
  *
  * The space for attributes is also slightly overallocated, as
  * the negation for some attributes is the same (e.g., nobold and nodim).
- * We also allocate space for 6 attributes (even though we have only 5).
+ *
+ * We allocate space for 6 attributes.
  */
 #define COLOR_MAXLEN 70
 
diff --git a/t/t4026-color.sh b/t/t4026-color.sh
index 2065752..13690f7 100755
--- a/t/t4026-color.sh
+++ b/t/t4026-color.sh
@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ test_expect_success 'long color specification' '
 
 test_expect_success 'absurdly long color specification' '
 	color \
-	  "#ffffff #ffffff bold nobold dim nodim ul noul blink noblink reverse noreverse" \
-	  "[1;2;4;5;7;22;24;25;27;38;2;255;255;255;48;2;255;255;255m"
+	  "#ffffff #ffffff bold nobold dim nodim italic noitalic
+	   ul noul blink noblink reverse noreverse" \
+	  "[1;2;3;4;5;7;22;23;24;25;27;38;2;255;255;255;48;2;255;255;255m"
 '
 
 test_expect_success '0-7 are aliases for basic ANSI color names' '
-- 
2.9.0.209.g845fbc1
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Message 14 of 24 in “Italics formatting”
  1. Simon CourtoisJun 23, 2016
  2. 0/2 more ANSI attributesJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  3. 1/2 color: fix max-size commentJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  4. 2/2 color: support "italic" attributeJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  5. Simon CourtoisJun 23, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  7. Jeff KingJun 23, 2016
  8. 0/7 more ANSI attributesJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  9. 1/7 color: fix max-size commentJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  10. 2/7 doc: refactor description of color formatJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  11. 3/7 add skip_prefix_mem helperJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  12. 4/7 color: refactor parse_attrJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  13. 5/7 color: allow "no-" for negating attributesJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  14. 6/7 color: support "italic" attributeJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  16. Jeff KingJun 23, 2016
  17. 7/7 color: support strike-through attributeJeff King, Jun 23, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  19. Jeff KingJun 23, 2016
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  22. Jeff KingJun 23, 2016
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016
  24. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2016

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