GNU bug report logs - #19368
25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough

Previous Next

Full log

Message #51 received at 19368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 19368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:34:23 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: 19368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:46:13 +1100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I don't think you should be bothered by that, because 'underline' is a
> > standard face, and every terminal expresses it as best as they can.
> > Just use it.
> 
> But underline in addition to [t]his?
> 
> I guess I'm asking whether there are terminals that don't do underline
> at all, and I would guess that there are...  so we need to do [t]his on
> all terminals, unless we have a way to query the terminal for whether it
> supports underline?

I think you want this:

  (display-supports-face-attributes-p '(:underline t) FRAME)

This returns non-nil only if underline is supported "in some way" by
FRAME's display.  Where "in some way" means that the appearance will
be different from the default face.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.