Our color specifications have supported the 256-color ANSI
extension for years, but we never documented it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
---
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
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