From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: xterm-direct and zsh
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:48:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sm01rl3cro3.fsf@lakka.kapsi.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26dcbe02-8288-44ad-54ed-58d00342be87@eastlink.ca>
Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> writes:
> Pardon a dumb question, but what use does a terminal have for a huge
> number of colors? I colorize my prompt but even 8 colors is more than
> enough. There must be some functionality that I'm completely unaware
> of.
I guess it's having the color you want. Personally I like to utilize
other people's work so I download color schemes for various terminal
programs and they usually assume a 256 color terminal. In the end it's
about freedom of choice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-22 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-21 4:22 Aaron Jensen
2020-07-22 8:13 ` Oliver Kiddle
2020-07-22 14:58 ` Ray Andrews
2020-07-22 15:19 ` Clinton Bunch
2020-07-22 18:48 ` Anssi Saari [this message]
2020-07-23 2:57 ` Ray Andrews
2020-07-23 4:46 ` Aaron Jensen
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