Colors and Styles (Stand-alone GNU Info 7.1)

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14 Colors and Styles ¶

You can choose to highlight parts of Info’s display, such as cross-references and search matches, using a variety of styles, including colors, boldface and underline. Here are the variables that are available to do this:

link-style ¶: Used for cross-references and menu entries.
active-link-style ¶: Used for a cross-reference or menu entry when typing RET would have the effect of following said cross-reference or menu entry.
match-style ¶: Used for matches from a search command. (See Searching an Info File.)

Each of these is given in the .infokey file just as the variables in the previous chapter. Their values are a comma-separated list of values in the following table:

black ¶
red
green
yellow
blue
magenta
cyan
white: Use the color specified for text.
nocolor
nocolour: Turn off any color that was in effect, using the terminal’s default color.
bgblack ¶
bgred
bggreen
bgyellow
bgblue
bgmagenta
bgcyan
bgwhite: Use the color specified for the background.
bgnocolor
bgnocolour: Use the terminal’s default background color.
underline ¶
nounderline: Turn text underline on or off.
standout
nostandout: Turn ‘standout mode’ on or off. Standout mode entails the use of appearance modes that make text stand out, and varies between terminals.
bold ¶
regular
nobold: Turn boldface on or off.
blink ¶
noblink: Make the text blink, or not.

Here is an sample excerpt from an .infokey file:

#var
link-style=yellow
active-link-style=yellow,bold
match-style=underline,bold,nocolor

With this, cross-references are all yellow, and active cross-references are additionally displayed in bold. Any search matches will be shown in bold, and underlined. Moreover, if there is a search match inside a cross-reference, the ‘nocolor’ rendition style will cancel the yellow color, leaving the text in the match the terminal’s default color. (Note, however, that the rendition styles for active cross-references take priority over those for search matches, so search matches there will still be displayed in yellow.)