[debbugs-tracker] bug#33915: closed (please document how to use more than 8 colors with ls / dircolors)

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> ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors
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> Sun, 30 Dec 2018 02:21:15 +0100
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> ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors.
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> First, "dircolors -p" says:
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> # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
> # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
> # Attribute codes:
> # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
> # Text color codes:
> # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
> # Background color codes:
> # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
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> But one can get bright colors without bold by using 90, 91, etc.
> This is useful with gnome-terminal.
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> I think that this should be documented.
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> Support for more than 16 colors could be nice...
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> On 29/12/18 18:10, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > 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.
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> >> I think that this should be documented.
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> >> Support for more than 16 colors could be nice...
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> > 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:
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> >   38;5;<foreground color number>;48;5;<background color number>
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> Addressed with:
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1de585
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> thanks
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