Misc/colors

Misc/colors

[Adam Spiers]

It's been a long while since I looked at the prompt theming stuff.  I
really should get around to tidying it up soon.

However, I just noticed:

% <load in Misc/colors>
% echo "$fg_bold[green]foo$fg_bold[grey]bar"

yields the 'bar' in green.  That can't be right can it?  I'm a bit
relunctant to delve in the murky depths of Misc/color as it's changed
a lot since I last touched it.

Re: Misc/colors

[Bart Schaefer]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Adam Spiers wrote:

> However, I just noticed:
> 
> % <load in Misc/colors>
> % echo "$fg_bold[green]foo$fg_bold[grey]bar"
> 
> yields the 'bar' in green.  That can't be right can it?

There isn't any fg_bold[grey] any more ... because there's no ANSI color
number for the color "grey".  What you were calling "grey" is what ANSI
calls "black", even though to get a really black-looking black you have
to use "bold black".

There is color[fg-grey] but the loop that maps $color onto fg, fg_bold,
etc., does a reverse lookup on the corresponding color number and gets
"black".  I've forgotten whether I did that on purpose.