info-stnd: Colors and Styles

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1 13 Colors and Styles
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1 You can choose to highlight parts of Info's display, such as
1 cross-references and search matches, using a variety of styles,
1 including colors, boldface and underline.  Here are the variables that
1 are available to do this:
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1 'link-style'
1      Used for cross-references and menu entries.
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1 'active-link-style'
1      Used for a cross-references or menu entry when typing <RET> would
1      have the effect of following said cross-reference or menu entry.
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1 'match-style'
11      Used for matches from a search command.  (⇒Searching
      Commands.)
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1    Each of these is given in the '.infokey' file just as the variables
1 in the previous chapter.  Their values are a comma-separated list of
1 values in the following table:
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1 'black'
1 'red'
1 'green'
1 'yellow'
1 'blue'
1 'magenta'
1 'cyan'
1 'white'
1      Use the color specified for text.
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1 'nocolour'
1 'nocolor'
1      Turn off any color that was in effect, using the terminal's default
1      color.
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1 'bgblack'
1 'bgred'
1 'bggreen'
1 'bgyellow'
1 'bgblue'
1 'bgmagenta'
1 'bgcyan'
1 'bgwhite'
1      Use the color specified for the background.
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1 'bgnocolour'
1 'bgnocolor'
1      Use the terminal's default background color.
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1 'underline'
1 'nounderline'
1      Turn text underline on or off.
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1 'standout'
1 'nostandout'
1      Turn 'standout mode' on or off.  Standout mode entails the use of
1      appearance modes that make text stand out, and varies between
1      terminals.
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1 'bold'
1 'regular'
1 'nobold'
1      Turn boldface on or off.
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1 'blink'
1 'noblink'
1      Make the text blink, or not.
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1    Here is an sample excerpt from an '.infokey' file:
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1      #var
1      link-style=yellow
1      active-link-style=yellow,bold
1      match-style=underline,bold,nocolour
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1 With this, cross-references are all yellow, and active cross-references
1 are additionally displayed in bold.  Any search matches will be shown in
1 bold, and underlined.  Moreover, if there is a search match inside a
1 cross-reference, the 'nocolour' rendition style will cancel the yellow
1 colour, leaving the text in the match the terminal's default colour.
1 (Note, however, that the rendition styles for active cross-references
1 take priority over those for search matches, so search matches there
1 will still be displayed in yellow.)
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