[need advice] Suddenly, Alacritty stopped displaying italics

[for-coursera]

OS: macOS 10.11

Most likely, it has nothing to do with Alacritty but I just hope that someone with experience will be able to point me somewhere...

The problem: I use terminfo entries generated pretty much the usual way (described here, for example), everything was OK, and then suddenly today I noticed that Alacritty stopped displaying italics. The very same setup works just fine with iTerm (and, of course, both Alacritty and iTerm have the same $TERM set, xterm-256color-italic).

Also, possible tests, like echo -e "\e[3mitalics\e[23m" or echo `tput sitm`italics`tput ritm` fail in Alacritty. As well as for, example, this testing script – while bold, dim, underline, reverse, strikethrough and invisible entries are absolutely fine.

So, my question would be the following: what do yo think, what can it be? I'm almost certain it is my configuration to blame but hell, where should I start looking? :) Some cache may be?

(Another problem is that don't use Alacritty on a daily basis, so I can't really say when did this happen...)

Thanks.

[kchibisov]

Could you try installing alacritty terminfo (take a look at INSTALL.md on how to install it), then run alacritty --config-file /dev/null and retest?

Basically there could be two problems:

• 1 Bad terminfo
• 2 Font doesn't have italics or you've misspelled font style for italics in case you've added it explicitly.

[for-coursera]

It seems that the culprit was me setting the style to style: Italic instead of style: Regular Italic.

Thanks for the info on alacritty terminfo and for the hint with --config-file /dev/null: I thought I was going insane, and these did help me to clean test the situation and then to locate the problem :)