scy, 1 month ago

Hot take:

Every terminal emulator that interprets "bold" as "make the foreground color brighter" has a bug.

Every terminal program that relies on "bold" to be interpreted as "make the foreground color brighter" has a bug.

Foreground colors 90 to 97 (and, by the way, background colors 100 to 107) exist and are unambiguous. Use them, ffs.

#Linux #CLI #terminal