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[PATCH] Add alacritty to terminal list supporting colors

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Doron Behar <doron.behar <at> gmail.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>,
	bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35247: [PATCH] Add alacritty to terminal list supporting
 colors
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 16:57:40 +0300

Well I'm not a developer of alacritty, just a humble user. I had only
taken the effort to investigate why I dircolors wouldn't define colors
for me when in this terminal.

Under it's installation section of the README, listed the supported
packages for the various distros:

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty#installation

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:24:09AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/04/19 12:20, doron.behar <at> gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Doron Behar <doron.behar <at> gmail.com>
> > 
> > https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
> > ---
> >  src/dircolors.hin | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin
> > index 3aa445bfa..424ed5b19 100644
> > --- a/src/dircolors.hin
> > +++ b/src/dircolors.hin
> > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> >  # against the TERM environment variable to determine if it is colorizable.
> >  TERM Eterm
> >  TERM ansi
> > +TERM alacritty
> >  TERM *color*
> >  TERM con[0-9]*x[0-9]*
> >  TERM cons25
> > 
> 
> I don't see this terminal packaged for Feodra at least.
> Why does it need its own TERM ?
> If it does, could one add 'color' to get the existing matching?
> 
> thanks,
> Pádraig

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