keep some glyph modes for the cursor - st - simple terminal HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/st DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR README DIR LICENSE --- DIR commit f2bfd513b14a2aa27796670235557a550b4189db DIR parent e7ed326d2e914a57017c9f34459824614075519b HTML Author: Nils Reuße <n.reusse@hxgn.net> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:34:12 +0200 keep some glyph modes for the cursor st currently does not keep any mode for the cursor that was active in the underlying glyph (e.g. italic text), the mode is always ATTR_NULL [1]. At [2] you can find a screenshot that shows the implications. Other terminals (at least vte-based, such as XFCE-terminal) keep some modes for the cursor. I find the current behaviour very disruptive, so here is a patch that keeps a few (arbitrarily chosen) modes for the cursor. [1] http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/st.c#n3963 [2] http://i.imgur.com/R2yCEaC.png Diffstat: M x.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) --- DIR diff --git a/x.c b/x.c @@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@ xdrawcursor(void) Glyph g = {' ', ATTR_NULL, defaultbg, defaultcs}, og; int ena_sel = sel.ob.x != -1 && sel.alt == IS_SET(MODE_ALTSCREEN); Color drawcol; + unsigned attr; LIMIT(oldx, 0, term.col-1); LIMIT(oldy, 0, term.row-1); @@ -1285,6 +1286,8 @@ xdrawcursor(void) xdrawglyph(og, oldx, oldy); g.u = term.line[term.c.y][term.c.x].u; + attr = ATTR_BOLD | ATTR_ITALIC | ATTR_UNDERLINE | ATTR_STRUCK; + g.mode |= term.line[term.c.y][term.c.x].mode & attr; /* * Select the right color for the right mode.