[Feature request] Italic text

[KaKi87]

Hello,

As we have the ability to display bold, and underline text, I'd like to be able to display italic text.

Thanks !

[jhyland87]

I 1000% second this. I've spent a while trying to figure out why I can't get italic text to print in the terminal. I've tried the following:

• The tput.sitm function
• {italic}Hello World{/italic}
• {sitm}Hello World{/sitm}
• \x1B[3mHello World\x1B[23m
• All the different terminal types (xterm-256color, xterm-color, xterm-new, etc)
• Added another condition in the Screen.prototype.codeAttr method (in screen.js) to check for the italic escape sequence (which is 3 to start and 23 to stop)
• Added another switch case in the Screen.prototype.attrCode method (also in screen.js) to account for the italic escape sequence

And I know my terminal supports it because running echo -e "\x1B[3mHello World\x1B[23m" and echo "$(tput sitm)Hello World$(tput ritm)" both work just fine.
I can see an entry for sitm in the lib/alias.js, but I can't get it to actually work.

The really annoying part is that whenever I just print the object to the console and look at the content attribute of that object, I can see the correct italic sequences present. But they seem to get stripped before they get displayed, and I can't figure out how >_<

[jhyland87]

@KaKi87 & @embarkbot , do either of you know how to fix the italic text issue? If you can point me in the right direction, I can try to fix/implement it and create a PR going

[KaKi87]

Nope, I actually even gave up on this, I am now only maintaining a CLI :/