Re: emacs' list-colors-display functionality, but for the shell/terminal

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

Dan> Suggestion: emacs has the command "list-colors-display": "Display
Dan> names of defined colors, and show what they look like."  But how about
Dan> for the shell terminal?  The closest GNU utility one finds is
Dan> dircolors -p, but I want to see all the colors and what they look like
Dan> in person.  Therefore perhaps add list-colors-display style
Dan> functionality to a new command line switch to dircolors, or something.

Fab concept, Dan.  How about

#Show color combinations on terminal, for say use in the bash prompt.
#Quick hack, don't know what I'm doing.  Also see bash man page's \[, \]
#Want to be like emacs' list-colors-display but do all combinations
awk 'BEGIN{
for (i=40;i<=48;i++){
    for  (j=30;j<=38;j++){
         print "\033[01;" i ";" j \
               "m This is the result of\033[00m \\e[01;" i ";" j "m"}}}'

This should after being rewritten by somebody who is more sure of what
they are doing than me, be part of the GNU standard shell utils, no?
Mine is called ~/bin/showterminalcolors

Thanks to bash correspondents who tipped me off to \[ \].
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