Re: testing for attrs like A_BLINK

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:

> Well according to termattrs() fbconsole, gnome-terminal, and xterm supposedly 
> support A_BLINK, but when the attribute is enabled it does not work.  konsole 
> reports correctly and indeed the char does blink.

termattrs() can only tell you what the terminal description says.
It can't tell what the terminal really does...

> William McBrine wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:
> >
> > > is there a way to test whether the underlying terminal support a certain 
> > > attr like A_BLINK?  looking for any answer, but a portable one is always 
> > > the best
> >
> > This is the purpose of termattrs().

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