Re: Coloring

[Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Irving Rabin <irving@edmodo.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Jeff, my problem has been resolved by Samuel Lijin.
> My terminal settings didn't set bold which remained white. I fixed it
> and my problem was gone!

Specifically, Irving's terminal rendered bold text as white. No bug here :)

> This issue is closed. Is there any way to retire it?

That's pretty much it.

> Irving Rabin
> Software Developer @Edmodo
> 408-242-1299
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> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:33:31AM -0700, Irving Rabin wrote:
> >
> >> Specifically, if the field is supposed to be white, it doesn't mean it
> >> should be literally 0xFFFFFF. It should be the color that I have
> >> configured as White color for my console emulator.
> >>
> >> I like light-screen terminals, and I configure my ANSI colors in the
> >> way that they are clearly visible on the background and clearly
> >> distinct between themselves. In my terminal settings background is
> >> light-yellow, Black is black, Yellow is brown, Red is dark red,
> >> Magenta is purple and White is dark gray. I set it once and I can use
> >> it everywhere - all Unix commands work correctly, I can edit
> >> highlighted source code in Vim, and all my color settings are
> >> respected.
> >
> > Git outputs ANSI color codes, which are interpreted by your terminal.
> > You _can_ configure Git to send 24-bit color codes if your terminal
> > supports it, but by default it uses the traditional set of limited color
> > and attribute codes.
> >
> > What does running the following snippet in your shell look like?
> >
> > -- >8 --
> >
> > while read name code; do
> >         printf '\033[%sm%s\033[m\n' "$code" "$name"
> > done <<-\EOF
> > normal
> > bold 1
> > red 31
> > green 32
> > yellow 33
> > blue 34
> > magenta 35
> > cyan 36
> > bold-red 1;31
> > bold-green 1;32
> > bold-yellow 1;33
> > bold-blue 1;34
> > bold-magenta 1;35
> > bold-cyan 1;36
> > EOF
> >
> > -- 8< --
> >
> > If any of the colors are not what you expect, is there a pattern? E.g.,
> > I wouldn't be surprised if "bold" shows up as bright white. In many
> > modern terminal emulators, the bold variants need to be configured
> > separately from the non-bold ones, and default to lighter variants of
> > their non-bold counterparts. The solution there would be to check your
> > terminal emulator config.
> >
> > If it does all look as you'd expect, try adding "| less -R" to the end of
> > the "done <<-\EOF" line. Most of Git's output goes through that pager
> > (though I _think_ it's mostly just passing through the ANSI codes, so it
> > wouldn't have any effect).
> >
> > -Peff