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ksherlock on Jan 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

termcap/terminfo styling is limited to features like underline, bold and reverse. No coloring, per se.

simplicio on Jan 10, 2019 | [–]

"man terminfo | grep color" shows that pretty clearly to not be the case. There's plenty of codes for setting colors.

msla on Jan 12, 2019 | [–]

It's entirely possible termcap and terminfo have been allowing applications to color their output for longer than you've been alive.

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