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.