Re: Setting the bold attribute for "Normal" text"

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 3:59 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 18, 9:40 am, Spiros Bousbouras <spi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I start a buffer not belonging to any specific filetype. I type some
>> > random stuff and then do
>> > :highlight Normal ctermfg=green
>> > I get green letters. But if instead I do
>> > :highlight Normal cterm=bold term=bold
>> > I don't get bold text. What am I doing wrong ?
>>
>> See :help highlight-cterm
>>
>> Many terminals are unable to mix fg colors and attributes like bold.
>> You do not specify what term you are using but possibly it does not
>> support this.
>
> I wasn't trying to mix foreground colours and bold , I only want
> bold. I guess my last post wasn't clear enough but what I meant was
> that I start vim with an unnamed buffer not belonging to any specific
> filetype , I type some random stuff and then do
>
> :highlight Normal cterm=bold term=bold
>
> and I don't get bold. I tried it with eterm , xterm and Linux console
> and I don't get bold in any of them. But if I don't do
>
> :highlight Normal cterm=bold term=bold
>
> and instead I do
>
> :highlight Normal ctermfg=green
>
> then it works on all 3 of them.

Sorry, my mistake. Thank you for clarifying. Somehow I got out of your
message that you are trying to get green text which is also bold.

> I also tried
>
> :syntax match boldtext /.*/
> :highlight boldtext term=bold cterm=bold
>
> and I get bold on all 3.
>
>> Have you considered using the GUI (gvim)?
>
> I prefer console vim and it's only there that I want bold (on some
> occasions).
>

Sadly, as someone who uses gvim almost exclusively, I will need to
defer to some of the console Vim experts on this one :-)

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