Re: bright colors with GNOME Terminal / 256-color terminals

2018-12-15 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:15:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: In the Mutt manual: foreground can optionally be prefixed with the keyword bright to make the foreground color boldfaced (e.g., brightred). That's the way to do with xterm, where boldfaced mode is a way to get bright colors, b

Re: bright colors with GNOME Terminal / 256-color terminals

2018-12-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:15:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: ... > For instance, in xterm, one uses > > tput bold; tput setaf 3; echo abcdef > > but in GNOME Terminal, one uses > > tput setaf 11; echo abcdef > > I assume that the reason is that xterm just has 8 colors: You appear to be