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

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: 33915 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33915: ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 03:10:51 +0100

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>

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