bug#50179: [PATCH] Add support for "bright" ANSI colors to ansi-color and term-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:38:06 -0700
> Cc: 50179@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > I wouldn't offer a customizable list for this: users have no
> > particular reason to redefine standard colors.
> 
> I made this a defcustom because `ansi-color-faces-vector' and
> `ansi-color-names-vector' are defcustoms too. More practically
> speaking, I'd want to customize this new variable to make these colors
> match the Emacs theme I use. I chose colors in this patch to
> complement `ansi-color-names-vector', but they'd clash with my theme.

How can named colors change with the theme?  Faces can, but colors are
absolute.  Bright-yellow is the same color whatever the theme.  At
least IMO.  I wonder if others think otherwise.

> > > +(defcustom term-color-bold-is-bright nil
> > > +  "If set to non-nil, combining ANSI bold and a color produces the bright
> > > +version of that color."
> > > +  :group 'term
> > > +  :type 'boolean
> > > +  :version "28.1")
> >
> > Do we really need 2 separate knobs for these two features?  How
> > probable is it that the same user will want to have bright colors in
> > one package, but not in the other?
> 
> I doubt anyone would want to control these independently. It'd be nice
> to have a single defcustom for this, but I wasn't sure where it should
> go in that case.

If we agree to have a single defcustom, then where to put it is
secondary.

> Would it be ok to use `ansi-color-bold-is-bright'
> (from patch 1 in `ansi-color.el') in `term.el'?

Yes, why not?

Thanks.