From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:15:31 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/7] docs: describe ANSI 256-color mode Message-ID: <20141120151531.GA23680@peff.net> In-Reply-To: <20141120151418.GA23607@peff.net> Our color specifications have supported the 256-color ANSI extension for years, but we never documented it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King --- I have no clue which terminals do and don't support this. I would hope the answer is "everything" by now, but I have seen some pretty awful terminal emulators in my time. Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9220725..f615a5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -839,6 +839,10 @@ accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `blink` and `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, doesn't matter. ++ +Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between +0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all +terminals may support this). color.diff:: Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches. -- 2.2.0.rc2.402.g4519813