Re: What is the best way to handle LS_COLORS ?

[Nicholas Marriott]

Hi

I don't know of many applications that use palette setting so I'd say it
is a very safe assumption. And now RGB colour has made it pretty much
obsolete.

tmux has a table of the xterm palette in colour_256toRGB in this file
that you may find useful, as well as a function to do the reverse
(colour_find_rgb): https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/colour.c



On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 04:29:09PM +1100, Tim Allen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:35:35PM -0500, Bryan Christ wrote:
> > I read both of your replies. Thank you. Helpful as always! So just
> > to clarify... it's a pretty safe assumption that the palette is the
> > default xterm-color256 palette? Would that be nestled in the xterm
> > source code by chance?
> 
> It probably is, but a web search for "xterm 256 palette" will dig up the
> goods. For example:
> 
>     https://jonasjacek.github.io/colors/
>     https://github.com/sindresorhus/xterm-colors
> 
> It's pretty simple to generate algorithmically:
> 
>   - 8 standard colours (dim)
>   - 8 standard colours (bright)
>   - 216 colours forming a 6×6×6 colour cube, where the value of each
>     channel comes from the set (0x00, 0x5f, 0x87, 0xaf, 0xd7, 0xff).
>   - 24 colours, the middle steps of a 26-step gradient from black to
>     white (absolute black and absolute white can be found in the colour
>     cube, they don't need to be in the greyscale gradient too)
> 
> Tim.
>