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Ticket #4539, comment 14
initial v1 9 9 > i'm also not sure what your point about man is. it's using the old sequences, and therefore every terminal is able to render bold as bright just fine. 10 10 11 I'm aware of at least one popular terminal that firmly refuses to implement this legacy behavior and insists that bold means bold. But every terminal ''could'', if it wanted to, easily implement a feature of brightening ''any'' color instead of making them bold , if they wanted to. Even the 256-color palette ones or direct RGB colors. That would fix your accessibility problems in many apps, not just mc.11 I'm aware of at least one popular terminal that firmly refuses to implement this legacy behavior and insists that bold means bold. But every terminal ''could'', if it wanted to, easily implement a feature of brightening ''any'' color instead of making them bold. Even the 256-color palette ones or direct RGB colors. That would fix your accessibility problems in many apps, not just mc. 12 12 13 13 That point that you are entirely missing here is that some of the terminal developers (including myself) have a shared ''vision'' here, a ''direction'' we are going towards. And that vision is to clearly separate these two concepts. We believe that if you want to have a brighter color, the proper way is to ''ask for'' a brighter color. If instead you wish to ask for bold, and ''somewhere'' (doesn't matter where, could be in mc's engine, or your terminal, or an intermediate layer, wherever) have some magic in place that converts that boldness to brightness instead, then you disagree with our vision, you look backwards to the constraints and by-products of the long-gone hardware limitations of the past, rather than forward to the clean and maintainable future. The clean and maintainable future is: if you want to have a brighter color, have a skin file that specifies that brighter color. Let everything be what it is, rather than something else and then someone along the way somehow magically trying to figure out what else you meant instead of what you said.
