On 2026/02/25 15:49, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First off, there is no problem or patch here, but I want to make the
> following findable in the ports@ archive for anyone not understanding
> why not all 256 colours are shown in rxvt-unicode--everything.
> 
> Even though 256 colours are always reported, only 88 colours are
> presented when using rxvt-unicode--everything.  The solution was
> installing the non-flavoured rxvt-unicode port.
> 
> The 'everything' flavour has --enable-everything, which enables most
> non-multichoice options.  The configure option --enable-256-color is one
> of the exceptions.  I was surprised by this, but memory use and
> compatibility are reasons for it.

I'm a bit surprised at that actually, I wouldn't mind adding it to
--everything if that would be useful

> In the port that option is enabled for the vanilla flavour only.  It is
> extremely useful that the option is enabled for at least one flavour,
> because one will quickly find out what's going on by looking at the
> port's Makefile.
> 
> One could debate if such exception options should be included in the
> default (or any) flavour, but I think this has been thought through
> already.  The port is okay with me as it is.  This was just FYI.
> 
> You can use this to test colours (after fixing the shebang):
> 
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/HaleTom/89ffe32783f89f403bba96bd7bcd1263/raw/e50a28ec54188d2413518788de6c6367ffcea4f7/print256colours.sh
> 
> To Stuart, thank you for maintaining this port.
> 
>  Marco

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