On 24Feb2020 20:15, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
On 2020-02-24, at 18:24:36, Cameron Simpson wrote:
The colours are requested with escape sequences and the colour
displayed are thus dependent on your terminal emulator; the names
"white" etc map to a palette. So you want to start with the settings
in your terminal emulator.
For reference, here are some colours from my ancient ANSI colour python module,
where you can see 0, 7, 4 etc embedded.
# the known colour names and their escape sequences
COLOURS = {
...
'green': '\033[32m',
...
Isn't terminfo supposed to add an abstractlon layer
so I can just say "green" and not memorize " '\033[32m'"?
Absolutely. That's what mutt does. I was just demoing some hardwired
ANSI colour escape sequences as examples to show the low and numeric
nature - they basicly specify an index into a palette.
And I still prefer "#00FF00".
If your terminal has full colour and there's an escape sequence for RGB
values, yes indeed. Bypasses weird palettes and says what you want.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
