On Friday, 28 February 2020 19:00:36 EET L A Walsh wrote: > xterm-TrueColor > and xterm-24bit > I've heard of, but direct? Isn't that a direct serial line > connection? > > But suffice it to say, I haven't seen any _concensus_ on a name > or terminal-name for that feature. > > Certainly TrueColor or 24-bit (or maybe 32) would be more descriptive > that something used for a direct connetion? >
That's the term I found in https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#xterm_16MegaColors and https://invisible-island.net/xterm/terminfo.html (search for the phrase "direct color"). The point of this patch is for dircolors to support TERM values like: alacritty-direct iterm2-direct kitty-direct konsole-direct mintty-direct mlterm-direct nsterm-direct st-direct vscode-direct vte-direct xterm+direct xterm+direct2 xterm+indirect xterm-direct xterm-direct2 Some of them are already matched by "xterm*", but that's beside the point. > On 2020/02/28 01:07, nl6720 wrote: > > * src/dircolors.hin: Add *direct* to match terminals that > > support direct colors (24-bit color / TrueColor). > > --- > Direct colors isn't an industry term that I've ever heard of. > Besides, it takes about 13 bits per color to represent full color, so > 16-bits seems likely as an upper bound using 64-bits total (upper 16 for > alpha?). > > > --- > > > > src/dircolors.hin | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin > > index 8f795bc99..b22643dbb 100644 > > --- a/src/dircolors.hin > > +++ b/src/dircolors.hin > > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ TERM con[0-9]*x[0-9]* > > > > TERM cons25 > > TERM console > > TERM cygwin > > > > +TERM *direct* > > > > TERM dtterm > > TERM gnome > > TERM hurd
