Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: should error messages get colored differently? and in red by default?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 14-02-18 om 15:52 schreef David Ramsey:
> Displaying error messages differently so that they stand out more is a
> very good idea; I agree with this proposal.

Thanks.

> I have only one concern.  if the --boldtext option is used, and color
> isn't available, there will be no way to visually distinguish error
> messages, because all messages on the statusbar will be displayed in
> bold instead of the usual reverse video,

Maybe nano could use reverse video to mark error messages when --boldtext is
used.  Or maybe we shouldn't bother with bold/bright/reverse at all when the
terminal isn't capable of color -- because, really, how many terminals are
that nowadays?

The error messages can't be distinguished from info messages now, so there
is no harm in leaving them indistinguishable on the less capable terminals.

Benno