Re:4bit - Terminal Color Scheme Designer
by mindslight on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @12:21PM
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Changing the base 16 colors of a 256-color terminal is still useful. I started overhauling my colors a few weeks ago, and decided that the best approach is to colorize most things using the 16-color palette and adjusting that to look nice, rather than eg setting LS_COLORS to spit out high colors. This gets me immediate results for programs/hosts I haven't customized, and less degradation if I happen to be using a less capable terminal.
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Re:4bit - Terminal Color Scheme Designer
by andreasvc on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @12:57PM
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Indeed, they are complementary. The basic 16 colors can be configured globally by the terminal which is convenient. 256 colors has to be supported by the particular application but I mostly care about the vim scheme anyway. I have a scheme which uses multiple shades of gray so as not be as distracting as the typical syntax highlighting `salad.'