GNU bug report logs - #33915
please document how to use more than 8 colors with ls / dircolors

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Message #15 received at 33915-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>, 33915-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33915: ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:20:42 -0800

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

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