Fwd: Blinking text: %{+B} attribute.

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:29:44AM +0100, David Chanters <david.chanters at googlemail.com> wrote:
> A pity -- does this mean xterm is broken in this regard, or is the
> decision on xterm's part to ignore the ECMA thing and just blink
> regardless?

xterm is fully in line with ecma itself (at least in that respect) - ecma-48
doesn't mandate support for blinking in any way.

> Either way, if i really did want to override this "restriction" in
> rxvt-unicode, is it just a matter of providing different attributes in
> the rxvt-unicode terminfo database, or have i somehow missed the point
> entirely?

you cannot have blinking with coloured text, because blink is used for
high-intensity background colours. blinking only works with the default
text colours.

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