Subject: bug#33915: closed (Re: bug#33915: ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:21:01 +0000

Your bug report

#33915: please document how to use more than 8 colors with ls / dircolors

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#33915: ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Vincent Lefevre <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:20:42 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 29/12/18 18:10, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2018-12-30 02:21:15 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> But one can get bright colors without bold by using 90, 91, etc.
>> This is useful with gnome-terminal.
>>
>> I think that this should be documented.
>>
>> Support for more than 16 colors could be nice...
> 
> Actually this is also a lack of documentation. After looking at
> "tput setaf ..." and "tput setab ..." output in 256-color mode,
> one can use things like:
> 
>   38;5;<foreground color number>;48;5;<background color number>
> 
Addressed with:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1de585

thanks

Subject: ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors
From: Vincent Lefevre <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 02:21:15 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors.

First, "dircolors -p" says:

# Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
# string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
# Attribute codes:
# 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
# Text color codes:
# 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
# Background color codes:
# 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white

But one can get bright colors without bold by using 90, 91, etc.
This is useful with gnome-terminal.

I think that this should be documented.

Support for more than 16 colors could be nice...

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