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
