Quoth Jeremy Nickurak on Jan 26 at 2:59 pm: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:41, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote: > > As much as I would like this, many terminals don't visually > > distinguish between the default face and the default face in bold. > > I've taken a shot at this under xterm, gnome-terminal, and a basic > linux VT. I figure that if something is broken in another terminal > that breaks in one of these, it's somebody-elses-problem :) > > Xterm/gnome-terminal support bold just fine. With a Linux VT, emacs > just chooses i slightly lighter color, which is totally usable. Cool. If this works in those, then I'm happy with the bold. (Upon further inspection, it's possible that I'm just full of it and the font I've been using for the past decade or so is simply too small to have a bold variant.)