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  • CTL-A Attrib High/Norml Bug?

    From Viperprime@1:103/705 to All on Mon Aug 6 19:57:25 2018
    Hey everybody.

    I'm writing my answer screen using CTRL-A codes have have come across some strange behavior that could be a bug (Or is this way on purpose?)

    Let's say my color is currently normal green (CTRL-AG)
    Using CTRL-AH Puts the text into "High Green", as expected.
    Then, Using CTRL-AN Changes back to normal but also changes the color to WHITE.

    Shouldn't only the brightness attribute be changed and not the color?

    I've noticed the same behavior here in the message editor on Vertrauen:
    I did a CTRL-AG to write this line
    I then did a CTRL-AH to write this line.
    I then did a CTRL-AN to write this line. (Shouldn't this be normal green?)
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Viperprime on Mon Aug 6 20:57:38 2018
    Re: CTL-A Attrib High/Norml Bug?
    By: Viperprime to All on Mon Aug 06 2018 07:57 pm

    Hey everybody.

    I'm writing my answer screen using CTRL-A codes have have come across some strange behavior that could be a bug (Or is this way on purpose?)

    Let's say my color is currently normal green (CTRL-AG)
    Using CTRL-AH Puts the text into "High Green", as expected.
    Then, Using CTRL-AN Changes back to normal but also changes the color to WHITE.

    Actually, it's "lightgray".

    Shouldn't only the brightness attribute be changed and not the color?

    There is no ANSI terminal sequence to just turn off high-intensity.

    I've noticed the same behavior here in the message editor on Vertrauen:
    I did a CTRL-AG to write this line
    I then did a CTRL-AH to write this line.
    I then did a CTRL-AN to write this line. (Shouldn't this be normal green?)

    No, you have to clear the attribute back to "normal" (lightgray, non-blinking) in order to clear the high-insensity or blink attributes. It's an ANSI thing (not my fault). :-)

    digital man

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