[Bug 294499] [termcap] screen entry has so=\E[3m (italic) should be so=\E[7m (reverse video)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294499

--- Comment #1 from Dan Mahoney <freebsd@gushi.org> ---
Note: There's a related bug in Gnu Screen due to this behavior change.

When screen was set up to support italics: (via this bug):

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36676, 

people originally complained that it showed standout instead of italics.  So
screen added italics, but this exposed that inside many termcaps, including
FreeBSD's, we're sending the wrong sequences.

There's now an open PR in screen that it should do the right thing natively
(this bug:)

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=67436

But this can also be fixed by fixing the various system termcap entries.

I've got a pull request ready to go for this (which can easily be backported if
desired).

Note that there may in fact be more new capabilities that gnu screen supports,
and it may be worth updating this entry more fully.  This just fixes the
glaring error.  If I need to upload broken screenshots of (say) Alpine, which
relies heavily on reverse video, I can.

-Dan

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