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Add command-line flag to opt-in to italic font-style

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#6 opened on Nov 29, 2018

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Description

.. since italic text ANSI escape codes can cause problems on some terminal emulators / tmux.

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Research direction
Add a command line flag (e.g., italic) to enable italic font style in LS COLORS output. Use clap or structopt to parse the flag and conditionally include italic escape codes in the generated theme.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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RustCLI usage
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75