[neomutt-devel] Colours, LOTS of colours

[Richard Russon]

Hi Marius,

> > NeoMutt has to convert `color123` into RGB using a "standard" palette.

> Is this an ncurses limitation, or a NeoMutt architectural limitation?

ncurses
Perhaps there's a workaround, but I haven't investigated.

> Because a terminal program in theory could choose to intermix the
> 256-color escape codes with the 24-bit color escape codes however it
> wanted.

Yes.  Ultimately, ncurses must be outputing these sequences, but we don't
have any control over it.

Years ago, however, I hacked up a test that inserted sequences manually.
Back then, it was for 24-bit colour, but I'd still like to use the idea
for marking up URLs for the terminal to recognise.  (Some day :-)

lolcat branch:
    https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt-old/tree/lolcat

screen cast:
    https://asciinema.org/a/160886

Cheers,
    FlatCap / Rich
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