Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

[James Cloos]

RMS> --color=no does cause underlining to "work"--namely, to display
RMS> as bold.

RMS> This doesn't alter the conclusions I sent in the previous
RMS> message: on this terminal, and on xterm, Emacs should say that
RMS> underlining is NOT supported.

In that case, at least when --color=yes I suppose Emacs is already
doing what you want it to:  ignoring that the console has an escape
sequence for ul when all that sequence does in a colour change.

But note that it is possible that real underlining will be added in
the future for those that use a framebuffer console.  It may even
already work on non-x86, non-VGA hardware -- such as sun or ppc
hardware -- but I do not have such a box to check.

The colour change thing comes from the limits of VGA, and has been
duplicated by -- at least -- the current framebuffers on x86.  This
is the same thing emulators like kermit did on PCs before linux --
which is of course why linux does it.

-JimC  (who, btw, is wearing more of a kernel-hacker hat than
        an emacs-hacker hat in this thread)
-- 
James H. Cloos, Jr. <address@hidden>