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

On Sep 18, 6:48 pm, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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. I also tried
>
> :syntax match boldtext /.*/
> :highlight boldtext term=bold cterm=bold
>
> and I get bold on all 3.

So are there any other people where

:syntax match boldtext /.*/
:highlight boldtext term=bold cterm=bold

gives you bold but not doing the above and doing instead

:highlight Normal cterm=bold term=bold

does not ?

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