Nested `.dim()` affects surrounding styles too

It seems dim doesn’t handle being nested inside another style:

The following:

const chalk = require('chalk');

console.log(chalk.bold(chalk.dim('bold-dim'), 'bold'));

Produces:

While it should produce:

I reproduced this in both Terminal.app and iTerm.app on macOS 10.13.

// @Qix- Any ideas?

[kovidgoyal]

Sure, more power to you. I can promise to at least implement them in kitty if you are able to get the ball rolling.

[Qix-]

Years later, I’m going to go ahead and close this. Similar discussions in the emulator community have stalled a few times in recent years and I simply don’t see this problem getting fixed in any meaningful way.

Unless a whole new CLI technology rolls around to completely replace the archaic, broken, underspecified, slow, unportable, incompatibility-laden, opinionated, arbitrary, poorly implemented, spottily supported, Wikipedia-based, and holy-war-causing PTY/TTY “standards”, this isn’t something that is chalk’s burden to bear, nor is it something I feel could be resolved with a few stray bug reports.

There are too many emulators nowadays all doing their own thing based on their own set of philosophies and it’s not worth anyone’s time to bikeshed on how serial codes meant for transmission control over parallel/RS-232 ports should be interpreted in order to produce rainbow text on a $4000 gaming machine in 2021.

There’s nothing actionable here - I thank everyone’s discussion and hope it serves as a historic reference for anyone interested in endeavoring down this treacherous and unending path.