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Re: [PATCH 2/2] color: support "italic" attribute

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 23, 2016, 16:46 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> 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 | 2 +-
>  color.c                  | 8 ++++----
>  color.h                  | 3 ++-
>  t/t4026-color.sh         | 4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 58673cf..4b97d8d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ color::
>         colors (at most two) and attributes (at most one), separated

This is describing the format accepted by color_parse_mem(), whose main loop has /* [fg [bg]] [attr]... */ comment in front?

Is "at most one" still correct, or it was already stale before this patch?

Previous: Simon CourtoisNext: Jeff King
Message 6 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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