On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 03:50, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> You're correct that "standout" doesn't match the terminology in
> ECMA-48.  The use of "standout" was chosen to follow the terminology
> in prompt strings, I believe.
>
> This matched the behavior of most terminals at the time (notice
> ${(k)color[(r)standout]} is actually from Sven all the way back in
> 2001).  Also, there's no way to directly reference an escape sequence
> for any of the "Attribute Codes" (they aren't in the $fg / $bg
> hashes), so those values are mostly there for commentary value.
>
> I would have no objection to adding "italic"/"no-italic" to the color
> hash.  It also appears standout would more accurately be tied to
> reverse-video now, but because the keys of the hash are the numeric
> codes we can only have one or the other.
>

Would it be possible to drop `standout` (as it's rather ambiguous) and
instead add both `italic` and `reverse`? They both have `terminfo` entries.

It would be great if Zsh could eventually support the same highlighting
keywords as [Git does](
https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-color),
but I guess that's a long way off.