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--- system:console:256colors [2015/07/04 02:11] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ system:console:256colors [2023/03/21 16:56] (current) – phil
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 ====== 256 Colors ======
-Once upon a time, having a coloured terminal displaying whole eight different
+Once upon a time, having a colored terminal displaying whole eight different
-colours was subject to the geeks amongst all the terminal users. Nowadays,
+colors was subject to the geeks amongst all the terminal users. Nowadays,
-this is nothing special anymore.  Consequently, one has to go further: 256
+this is nothing special anymore. Consequently, one has to go further: 256
 colours!
-This is how we go.
 ===== rxvt-unicode =====
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 This depends on the value of ''$TERM'' at the time ''screen'' is started -
-''rxvt-256color'' is fine.
+''rxvt-256color'' is fine. Or maybe not? In doubt, one may override it:
+<file txt .screenrc>
+term xterm-256color
+</file>
 ===== Mutt =====
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 exit 0
+</file>
+This one is also nice, found on
+[[https://gist.github.com/eliranmal/b373abbe1c21e991b394bdffb0c8a6cf|Github]] and
+customized to get default parameter from tput output:
+<file bash show-ansi-colors.sh>
+#!/bin/bash
+ncolors=${1:-$(tput colors)}
+echo "showing $ncolors ansi colors:"
+for ((n = 0; n < $ncolors; n++)); do
+        printf " [$n] $(tput setaf $n)"
+        printf "wMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMwMw"
+        printf "$(tput sgr0)\n"
+done
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