This adds support for the `hidden` escape sequence `\e[8m`, which will
render the text as invisible.
This has also raised a few questions about the rendering of foreground
and background colors and their interaction with the different escape
sequences. Previously, Alacritty has oriented itself after URxvt, which
has some strange and unexpected behavior.
The new implementation of color inversion is modeled after XTerm, which
has a consistent pattern of always inverting the foreground and
background colors. This should hopefully lead to less confusion for the
user and a more consistent behavior.
A full matrix showcasing the new way Alacritty inverses text can be
found here:
https://i.imgur.com/d1XavG7.png
This fixes#1454 and fixes#1455.
Since landing the patch adding transparency support to Alacritty,
there's been an issue where othewise solid background cells were also
being rendered partially transparent. Now, all filled background cells
are rendered fully opaque.
Some logic was added to support discarding filled backgrounds which had
the same color as the default background. This means that, if the
default background is #000 and a cell has that background, it will never
be rendered opaque. This may not be correct.
Note that many truecolor vim color schemes print spaces for default
colored background cells. Performance can be dramatically improved by
using ctermbg=NONE guibg=NONE to skip rendering those cells.
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